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Simple sentences
I wouldn't be calling if it weren't important.
Tom apologized for calling so late at night.
I'm calling her right now.
Who should I say is calling?
You are calling me for the second time today.
Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox.
Now I have to leave, they're calling for my flight.
He got mad at me for calling him Shorty.
Who is calling, please?
He heard someone calling for help.
Someone is calling you.
Please excuse me for calling you so early in the morning.
I'm calling because my credit card has been stolen.
I'm calling because I've lost my credit card.
Thank you for calling.
Stop calling me names. That'll do you no good.
Look, someone is calling you.
It seems to me that someone is calling you.
Movie subtitles
Calling urgent basis in Noah.
The Lady is calling for you.
I'm calling the Burns Unit.
Yes, I'm calling on behalf of Dr Chandramohan.
Who are you calling a fruity lip balm?
So, I tried calling you this weekend.
Tell him it's Simion Bradshaw calling.
Stop calling me bro, bro.
He's calling to hear Rie's voice on the outgoing message.
Thank you for calling me that.
I'm calling Cooper.
Thanks for calling me back.
Help yourself. If you'll excuse me, my prunes for breakfast are calling.
Calling Evan as you walked in thereby leaving evidence of your own shocked discovery.
Are you calling this some charade we've devised?
She's calling herself Jolene Parker.
Agent Malik, you want to tell me why the director of national intelligence is calling?
I am calling you. I.
And there's nothing wrong with calling on a pretty girl, is there?
It is now my duty to point out to you that the profession of a spy is the most ignoble calling on earth.
I heard you calling, but I couldn't say anything.
They're calling for you, Baron. - Hey-ho.
So we're calling that square, see?
And the marquis is calling for you.
Who's calling?
Excuse me, please, but they are calling for Madame.
She'll be waking up and calling for me.
If my brother found out, he'd freak. And repays me by calling me a liar.
Yeah, you calling him fag?
It's like calling yourself.
You know my aunt keeps calling me and tries to set me up with someone who will make a sweet home with me.
I'M CALLING BECAUSE WE BELIEVE one of your accounts has been compromised.
AND YOU'RE CALLING THAT A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS? I DON'T KNOW HOW THE THING WORKS, OKAY?
Thank you for calling, Sergeant.
Children were calling us names.
You wanna tell me why the director of National intelligence is calling?
Does this word not sound like the death bird calling your name at midnight?
But on the other side of the island, an old man is sick. and calling for help from the good doctor.
News and current affairs
At the same time, the Commission's latest report on Turkey's progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country's future EU membership.
Still, Obama has wisely thrown down the gauntlet, calling for a new era of government activism.
Many of the voices that called for, and then bungled, military intervention in Iraq are now calling for war with Iran.
To do so would require calling for higher taxes, and that - as George H. W. Bush learned in 1992 - is no way to get re-elected.
Members of NATO share much more than an alliance; we are united by ties of blood and purpose, a heritage of liberty, and a calling to confront extremists' violence - and defeat it.
Trapped in a momentous struggle between the forces of peaceful change and those committed to Doomsday, the Middle East is once again calling for a major international effort at peacemaking.
Not only does North Korea show little interest in holding another session of the six-party talks that the Bush administration and the other participants are calling for; it now wants to ban the Japanese from participating.
Only fire-breathing free-market advocates, seemingly oblivious to the fact that China's shaky financial system cannot survive liberalization overnight, are calling for an extreme version of floating.
Praetorian takeover: The People's Liberation Army rules from behind a civilian mask, increasingly calling the shots with government officials, who are beholden to it.
In recent weeks, an unusual number of senior military officers have published articles in official newspapers calling for Party discipline and unity, and alluding to the military's role in containing the infighting.
They had no compunction about calling a bubble a bubble, or in intervening to deflate it.
For roughly the past decade, heads of state have been calling on regulators to tackle big issues, such as capital standards, along with other matters like over-the-counter derivatives and credit-ratings reforms.
A US Congressional Commission of experts, on which I served, issued a report, dubbed the Meltzer Report (after the Commission's Chairman, economist Allan Meltzer), calling for dramatic reforms of both institutions.
This is a far nobler calling than simply expanding American hegemony.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh.
Germany is an exception, though hardly a geostrategic heavyweight; and though Japan knows the horror of nuclear war, important domestic voices there are calling for a change of its non-nuclear status.
On CNN recently, a long pause followed when I asked legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin - who was calling for Assange's arrest - if he had really never handled classified information.
The speech drew the most attention for calling on Israel to return to its 1967 borders, but the effect was undercut when Israel flatly rejected the US position.
Encouraged by this change the BNP's junior coalition partner, Jamaat-e-Islami, which has links with the militias and remains close to Pakistan, has been calling for imposition of Sharia (Islamic law).
Indeed, now the US is encouraging repression of the Arab Spring in Yemen and Bahrain, where official security forces routinely kill peaceful protesters calling for democracy and human rights.
Some voices in America are calling for even bigger increases.
By calling for Japanese restraint, the US stoked Japan's anxiety, without winning any concessions from China.
It is worth noting that the people who went into the streets of Cairo and Damascus calling for change were not shouting the slogans of Al Qaeda or supporting its agenda.
Liu was co-author in 2008 of a petition, Charter 08, signed by thousands of Chinese, calling for basic rights to be respected.
Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh. But few financial professionals have been fooled.
Yet, despite this good news, the continent's politics have turned upside down, calling into question whether economic success can be sustained.