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Example sentences for "when called"

  • No trustee, when called upon to account for the disposition of the property placed under his management before any judicial tribunal, would venture to present such a plea in his defense.

  • The one is upon the last indulgence, wherein professors by bond and penalty obliged themselves to produce their minister before the council, when called.

  • When called in again, it was intimated to him, that if he did not repair to synods and presbyteries between this and October, conform in the time, and promise obedience in all time coming, the bishop of Glasgow was to deprive him.

  • When called, they shall attend and give a respectful answer; and when attending on their superior, they are not to depart until regularly dismissed.

  • There was danger that the deposit banks, when called upon to refund the public treasure, would be unable to do it: indeed, it was said on this floor that the immediate effect of the distribution bill would be to break those banks.

  • The board, when called on by the government directors, refused to institute an inquiry or require an account, and the mode adopted by the latter was the only one by which the object could be attained.

  • When called upon to state any just grounds for such a measure, the invader has usually replied that he had, ex necessitate rei, the right to establish such a tribunal.

  • Gideon was "threshing wheat" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.

  • Gideon was "threshing wheat" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.

  • Gideon, the deliverer of Israel, was "threshing wheat by the wine press" when called to lead the host against the Midianites.

  • But who, when called, was there in the world, in whom grace shone so bright as in him?

  • And this, in the wisdom of God is thus, to the end no man, when called upon, should put off turning to God to another time.

  • But a physician, when called upon to manage a case, is bound to exercise the skill and vigilance which good and faithful physicians, under the circumstances in which he is placed, would exercise.

  • Moreover, when called upon to swear fidelity to the Inquisition, he had taken the oath with great reluctance.

  • When called upon to make confession, he wrote two full sheets denouncing the Catholic teaching, claiming that it was at variance with the true faith of the gospel.

  • De Foresta's comment on this is a story of the French executioner who, when called to Nice to guillotine a criminal, was unable to find anywhere to lay his head.

  • The evidence was circumstantial, but conclusive; and, when called on for his defence, he denied the crime with which he was charged, and said that it was not proved the pistols and hat were his.

  • When called to account for abuse of their powers, they had behaved precisely as mere corrupt human kings and aristocracies behave.

  • When called on to act, he and Alva said that if the English Catholics wanted Spanish help they must do something for themselves.

  • Generally he was among the first upon the play-ground, and he was also among the first to go into school, when called in.

  • Often would he go to school without having made any preparation for his morning lesson; and, when called to recite with his class, he would stammer and make such blunders, that the rest of his class could not help laughing at him.

  • When called upon to recite, he rose tranquil and happy, and very seldom made any mistake.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being easily; course they; fell dead; when boiled; when crossed; when death; when fully; when here; when intelligence; when light; when mother; when practicable; when pursued; when referring; when she; when something; when speaking; when that; when the door opened; when they had come; when they were seated; when treating; when walking; when young; whence also; whenever they