Sentence examples for had been called about from inspiring English sources

In the last few months, residents said, the police had been called about the dogs several times.

The police had been called about the noise in this quiet Westchester suburb, about 30 miles north of Manhattan.

Sgt. James Crowley had a legitimate reason for confronting Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home; he had been called about a potential burglary in progress.

She blamed the machine used, which she said overheated, and she disputed the manufacturer's account that no technicians had been called about what she said had been an overheating problem.

In one case, a 65-year-old African American man said he was leaving a library in Southeast Washington when he was detained and handcuffed, even though he did not fit the description of the threatening library patron police had been called about.

And I had been called about it.

Ms. Farinet said that private school parents had been calling about transferring their children to P.S. 41 this fall; the number of such calls is usually zero.

It was Vini Lopez, an old friend who lately had been calling about a future collaboration, perhaps on a Steel Mill Retro record.

This isn't the first time that police in the area have been called about Pokémon-related incidents.

Because of his commitment to calling N.B.A. games on TNT, he has been calling about 50 Knicks games a season on MSG.

Publishers have been calling about a book, and he will continue with FiveThirtyEight, using it to predict Congressional votes during the Obama administration — if anyone cares.