Sentence examples for were summoned on from inspiring English sources

The captain then asked, almost ritually, "Where away?," and all hands were summoned on deck to lower the ship's boats — there were usually four — for the chase, in the direction the lookout indicated.

The police said that from 2006 to 2010, officers were summoned on at least nine occasions to sort out domestic disturbances involving Ms. Crawford and Jamar's father, who was not implicated in the boy's death.

"Why such repeated dysfunctions?" Marco Van Hees, a member of the Belgian Parliament, asked the interior minister and two other ministers who were summoned on Friday to explain the failure.

In a scene that recalled the Washington grilling of tobacco industry executives in 1994, oil company officials were summoned on Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to justify offshore drilling and explain how their safety practices differed from BP's.

Although no Chinese sources detail the event, Portuguese sources tell of how the Portuguese were summoned on the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month to ceremoniously prostrate themselves before a wall of the Forbidden City to seek another audience with the emperor.

Finally, one woman announces herself as a dominatrix, and is summoned on stage with two stooges to demonstrate.

Going back to the vainglorious wad-flasher of the England squad, one couldn't help remembering Alan Ball's account of being summoned, on the morning of the 1966 World Cup Final, to fetch the £2,000 owed to his room-mate Nobby Stiles and himself by the sponsors, Adidas.

For the moment, however, these realities can only be summoned on a laptop screen.

A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that Freeman was summoned on Thursday, but declined to comment further.

Video replay may be summoned on demand, along with updated box scores.

Lewandowski has been summoned on the battery charges relating to Michelle Fields to appear in a Palm Beach court on 4 May.