I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/torch/phone etc battery
▪
Have you checked your mobile phone battery?
a computer/phone/oil etc company
▪
an international oil company
a phone card (= one that you can use in some public telephones )
▪
You can use this phone card in several countries.
a phone/telephone call
▪
I had a phone call from Barbara in Australia.
a telephone/phone message (= a message that someone has written down for you from a phone call )
▪
There was a telephone message for her to call Harbury.
an electricity/gas/phone etc bill
▪
I’ll have to pay the gas bill too next month.
anonymous phone call/letter etc (= one that is often unpleasant or contains threats )
call/phone/ring in sick (= phone to say you are not coming in to work because you are ill )
▪
I could have called in sick, but I knew you needed this report.
cellular phone
clamshell phone
courtesy bus/taxi/car/phone etc
▪
The hotel runs a courtesy bus from the airport.
▪
Most reviewers receive a courtesy copy of the book.
flip phone
got a phone call
▪
I got a phone call from someone called Mike.
have phone sex
▪
She claimed the relationship consisted mainly of him calling her up to have phone sex .
I-mode phone
make a...phone call
▪
I need to make a quick phone call .
mobile phone
▪
mobile phone users
obscene phone calls (= calls from an unknown person saying obscene things )
▪
obscene phone calls
palm phone
pay phone
phone book
phone booth
phone box
phone call
▪
I need to make a quick phone call .
phone for a cab British English (= call a cab )
▪
There's no need to give me a lift. I'll phone for a cab.
phone for/call a taxi (= telephone for a taxi to come )
▪
Can you phone for a taxi and I'll get our coats.
phone sex
▪
She claimed the relationship consisted mainly of him calling her up to have phone sex .
phone tree
phone...tapped
▪
Murray’s phone calls to Australia were tapped .
Touch-Tone phone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cellular
▪
A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds.
▪
People with a cellular phone in the car run a 34 percent higher risk of having an accident, researchers say.
▪
Many of those who initially looked at the handyphone were disappointed because they thought it was the same as a cellular phone .
▪
Their strategy was overheard on a police scanner that was able to intercept cellular phone transmissions.
▪
Eo Phone for connecting a cellular phone system.
▪
In the back seat, Mike dialed up Arlene on the cellular phone .
▪
Lewis and his crew shut off the lights to their car, dialed 911 on a cellular phone and waited.
▪
Shosteck said the lowest wholesale prices for cellular phones was $ 216 in 1993.
local
▪
Nynex and other phone companies sell long-distance and local phone service as a single package.
▪
The ad lit up local radio talk-show phone lines, and the comment was not limited to the usual pro-sheriff variety.
▪
Another big question mark: How vigorously will the local phone companies defend their turf?
▪
The bill also repeals prohibitions on local phone companies to provide video services.
▪
Category one services are likely to include international long distance, intra-city long distance and local phone calls.
mobile
▪
It is all made possible by smart phones , the next generation mobile phones equipped with a Psion-designed operating system.
▪
Dimension Data rose 4.1 per cent to R52.90 while mobile phone operator M-Cell jumped 76.6 per cent to R26.65.
▪
It was too low-lying for a mobile phone and completely isolated, but the buyers loved it.
▪
Cable &038; Wireless fell 23p to 846p after its Mercury operation launched a new mobile phone service.
▪
Globalisation, Giddens seems to say, is about giving every villager in the Andes a Nokia internet-enabled mobile phone .
▪
Mr. Lewis Would the Minister like my complaints about the service by fax, pager or mobile phone ?
▪
Maybe the mobile phones at the Docklands beer festival were no mere accident.
■ NOUN
bill
▪
The phone rings, though, so it looks as if somebody pays the phone bills .
▪
You are required by the District Attorney to provide your phone bills , both business and personal.
▪
For example, competition could cut the size of phone bills and end the imposition of unreasonable bank charges on small businesses.
▪
Customers can pay by credit card or with their monthly phone bill starting next month.
▪
My phone bill can stand it!
▪
Pac Bell has sought to make amends with the Stinsons by agreeing to pay their cellular phone bill .
▪
He stayed for weeks, ran up astronomical phone bills , and then vanished.
▪
Is it not true that too many people have phone bills that are too high?
book
▪
It's in the phone book .
▪
She had to look up the number in the phone book .
▪
Look up your nearest Brook Advisory Centre in the phone book and make an appointment.
▪
Grabbing the phone book , he leafed through, looking for the number of the nursing home.
▪
Nicola Hammond looked in the phone book .
▪
Unlike novels and other creative works, factual compilations like phone books and directories tend to be cut and dry.
▪
Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw, and they're far cheaper.
▪
She called some Tonellis there out of the phone book , and one of them suggested that she contact me.
booth
▪
As soon as he could, he found a phone booth .
▪
He was standing in an exposed phone booth .
▪
You're a millionaire call while in a phone booth in Creeksville-in-the-Boondocks.
▪
It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth .
▪
In a phone booth , Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.
▪
The elevator is a perforated metal box no larger than a phone booth .
▪
He left the phone booth and went quickly out to the street.
box
▪
I rang his sister from a public phone box .
▪
She spotted the out-of-order phone box and drew up beside it.
▪
Miracle: a phone box empty.
▪
She takes it and makes for the phone box .
▪
Charlie'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box .
▪
So if you spot a public phone box tell me.
▪
When it was safe to do so, Stone entered the phone box and began to make his calls.
▪
Now we haven't even got the phone box .
call
▪
He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call .
▪
I've just had a serious phone call .
▪
United did not return phone calls asking for comment.
▪
It comes complete with the links to download the software that needed for video phone calls and such like.
▪
Ickes, 57, did not return phone calls this week.
▪
If you get an obscene or abusive phone call , don't say anything and hang up immediately!
▪
Asking a friendly, million-member organization to blitz Capitol Hill with phone calls and letters is forbidden.
car
▪
Whenever it had to stop at the lights the occupant seemed to be rather impressively on the car phone .
▪
People who blab on their car phones operate in an altered state.
▪
But he liked people to know things like he had a car phone .
▪
John Violanti and James Marshall, the average time spent on a car phone is 50 minutes a month.
▪
It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter.
▪
They are competing in popularity with car phones .
▪
Cheryl also handles all car phone arrangements for the sales team, negotiating rates with the phone companies.
▪
He's up at his cabin now, but I can reach him on his car phone .
cell
▪
And put down that cell phone , before it kills you!
▪
New Yorkers tend to think one thing and do another with cell phones .
▪
Some children carry cell phones that are programmed to dial only three numbers-home, school and office.
▪
Whether you can set off dynamite with a cell phone .
▪
Services, have already set up networks in most major metropolitan areas to offer Internet access via the cell phone technology.
▪
To be sure, predicting how many cell phones and semiconductors to make is a difficult game.
company
▪
This is rough on the phone company , which still organizes the phone book by first names.
▪
The odds favor the phone company .
▪
The Official Family was like the phone company .
▪
Then the Government quietly pulled out and turned the operation over to a handful of communications giants and the long-distance phone companies .
▪
But the phone company patched through a line Friday night, and du Pont answered the telephone when authorities called.
▪
Target customers include the regional Bell operating companies , independent phone companies, and network software suppliers.
▪
In the 1960s, it was fashionable to hate the phone company .
conversation
▪
The phone conversation with Roman had shaken her and she wanted to think about it before she said any more.
▪
Records of several cellular phone conversations between Ramsey and other individuals confirmed this, Wasserman said.
▪
Her only contribution to the phone conversation was an occasional monosyllable.
▪
The document described her phone conversation with the irate customer.
▪
Finally Audio notepad will enable the user to recording their phone conversation at the click of a button.
▪
Five years ago, four people pleaded guilty to felonies for having recorded and disseminated a phone conversation of Gov.
▪
The cellular phone conversation was picked up on a police scanner.
line
▪
Prestel is accessed through ordinary phone lines , always at the cost of a local call.
▪
At this time, cable shopping channels are not truly interactive because they use phone lines to take orders.
▪
The basic service comprises two phone lines per connection.
▪
Power and phone lines striated the sky.
▪
Dial tone not detected: Is your phone line plugged in?
▪
I get fax messages printed out through my phone line in the hospital.
▪
There are also two phone lines for the event; an information hotline and a competition line to win tickets.
▪
Some come with voice-mail features, and others allow you to talk over a phone line while connected to another computer.
lines
▪
Prestel is accessed through ordinary phone lines , always at the cost of a local call.
▪
At this time, cable shopping channels are not truly interactive because they use phone lines to take orders.
▪
The basic service comprises two phone lines per connection.
▪
Power and phone lines striated the sky.
▪
A raid on the adjoining rugby club meant that the phone lines at the University ground were cut for a day.
▪
The phone lines , he said, are all severed as the civil war continues.
▪
Instead he has been shot at, his phone lines have been cut, and his house has been burned down.
▪
But with digital instruments and digital storage, the data could be transferred through phone lines from the source to the computer.
number
▪
Call listed phone numbers for directions.
▪
I took no notes, had no addresses, no phone numbers .
▪
Give a phone number if at all possible.
▪
It doesn't seem to matter that the reader has my name and could easily get my address and phone number .
▪
Make sure that all the local news people have the appropriate office and home phone numbers .
▪
A computer looks at the phone number and decides whether any of the participating fax machines cover the destination.
numbers
▪
It gives head office phone numbers .
▪
We cleaned up with Kleenexes, exchanged phone numbers .
▪
To protect privacy, phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office.
▪
Sounds like a memory for phone numbers to me.
▪
Call listed phone numbers for directions.
▪
They tell of phone numbers one can call for horoscopes, fortunes, curses, cures.
▪
He kissed her and pressed a list of phone numbers and dates and times into her hand.
▪
As of Wednesday, all the 231-prefix phone numbers were nonworking.
pay
▪
Donaldson left Mrs Balanchine on the ward and found a pay phone to call his office.
▪
I made phone calls to my three friends from the pay phone on the corner and got three answering machines.
▪
Money was taken from the till, pool table and pay phone .
▪
The closest one she can find is a pay phone just outside Mac Court.
▪
I could flip through a fifty-page state supreme court decision on deadline and call in a story from a pay phone .
▪
Radio reporters in the field soon learned where all the good pay phones were located.
▪
What do you do when a pay phone gives you an extra quarter back?
ring
▪
He had heard the phone ring but did not listen to what was said.
▪
He let the phone ring twenty times, thirty, tried the line again, let it ring forty times.
▪
If your phone rings at 2.15 a.m. you'd better hope that too.
▪
Simply to imagine it is to defy credibility: A phone rings in a boarding house in Mobile, Alabama.
▪
If the phone rings you know your dialer and modem are talking to each other properly.
▪
The earlier the phone rings , the worse the news.
▪
The phone rings and he retires to the office to attend to it.
▪
The phone rings and you have to pick it up by the fourth ring or it rolls over to the message service.
service
▪
Cable &038; Wireless fell 23p to 846p after its Mercury operation launched a new mobile phone service .
▪
He noted that long-distance firms are still prohibited from accessing certain local phone services , such as high-volume calling plans.
▪
Consumers are thought to be waiting to see if new mobile phone services and email via television meet their needs.
▪
Nynex and other phone companies sell long-distance and local phone service as a single package.
▪
Cable &038; Wireless continued to be affected by worries over its new London phone service .
▪
The Swire group plans to be a mobile phone service provider.
▪
I have three for various financial purposes, one of which I've forgotten, plus two more for international phone services .
▪
The station telephone rang, a rarity in itself, since phone service on the island was virtually nonexistent.
system
▪
They needed an internal phone system that ensured fast and reliable communications between their commodity traders across the world.
▪
But most people found only busy signals, as structural damage and call volume overwhelmed local phone systems .
▪
SunSoft promises that Solaris Live!'s future includes integration with phone systems and object-oriented extensions.
▪
But if they do commit to the Internet, users may well have an affordable alternative to the phone system .
▪
There is still no mobile phone system , no credit cards and no convertible currency.
▪
But unlike the phone system , there are no long-distance charges on the Internet.
▪
They are planning a 100 percent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line.
▪
That takes the strain off a phone system designed to carry voice and provides higher throughput for Internet users and telecommuters.
■ VERB
answer
▪
It was Peter MacPherson who answered the phone to Tommy.
▪
Will you refuse to answer the phone if there is no number on your display?
▪
She'd phone to see if he was all right and if he didn't answer the phone there'd be trouble.
▪
Billie knew he had gone fishing with Louise, she had answered the phone when Louise called.
▪
If anyone answers the phone he won't even know whose voice it is, let alone what she's saying.
▪
Q6 tells it to not answer the phone automatically.
▪
She can't look after the salon at lunchtimes, as she's unable to answer the phone .
▪
Wildfire makes voice-recognition technology used to answer phones and take messages.
get
▪
I got some phone numbers out of the Salvation Army yesterday.
▪
It was frightening to get a dozen screaming phone calls a day, and nothing I could say made any difference.
▪
I got the phone call at midnight.
▪
But I got a late-night phone call from you, Doll.
▪
Now we haven't even got the phone box.
▪
I'd get a phone call from his secretary and then a limousine would be waiting for me down the lane.
▪
It doesn't seem to matter that the reader has my name and could easily get my address and phone number.
make
▪
He wanted to dissipate his anger before making the next phone call.
▪
Hughes makes cellular phones for use in vehicles sold by its parent, General Motors.
▪
At nine thirty he made a phone call.
▪
I listened while Ted made a phone call.
▪
I went into a pharmacy to make some phone calls.
▪
Cramer left the room to make a phone call.
▪
Old thought: We lived for thousands of years without needing to make or take phone calls right this red hot second.
pick
▪
On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her, hoping I still had the right number.
▪
But when he picks up the phone and dials her number, there is no answer.
▪
Enter now ... Simply pick up the phone and dial Our lines are open 24 hours, 7 days a week.
▪
He picked up the phone and called the school superintendent.
▪
On impulse, she picked up the phone and began to dial Donna's number.
▪
One day, when I least expected it, I picked up the phone and he was on the other end.
▪
However trivial you think your observation is, pick up the phone and tell the police.
▪
I could pick up the phone and call the police.
put
▪
And he had just put the phone down on the only man who could ruin it all for him.
▪
There was more to the Steelers' resurgence than putting the phones on hold, however.
▪
I put the phone down on him.
▪
On hearing my voice he put down the phone .
▪
Inside the phonebox Jack put down the phone .
▪
Be brisk, polite, and put the phone down.
▪
Bandeira was anxious as he put the phone down.
▪
As he put the phone down he thought: You go right ahead.
reach
▪
He rang while I was reaching for the phone .
▪
I reached for the phone to call Goldman Sachs, Alex.
▪
He reached for the phone and rang the London office.
▪
After studying the handwritten pages, Dalzell reached for his phone .
▪
The 15-year-old had just reached an emergency phone when a Ford Sierra swerved to a halt in front of him.
▪
As he reached for the phone , he realized what he was doing-he was placing his foot squarely in a bear trap.
▪
I don't have to speak to 25 people before I can reach her on the phone .
▪
That was why he had tried to reach Cantor by phone and arrange a meeting in some neutral territory.
receive
▪
He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant.
▪
But two years ago a London antiques dealer received a mysterious phone call.
▪
Sheffield received harassing phone calls most of last season.
▪
Ballater received a phone call from Rose at seven o'clock that evening.
▪
She recalled years later that she frequently received phone calls from friends planning a group excursion on the town.
▪
I served on the citizenship working party after receiving a phone call from David Blunkett's office.
▪
One evening, Ham Robb received a phone call.
return
▪
BReid, who is a former deputy district attorney, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
▪
Wynn, Mays and Tienken did not return phone calls Friday.
▪
My hand would return the phone to its cradle.
▪
Meyer did not return phone calls late Tuesday.
▪
Before my 11.00am appointment I return two phone calls.
▪
The company did not return phone calls.
▪
Carey works in the White House as a special assistant for legislative affairs; he did not return a phone call Monday.
▪
United did not return phone calls asking for comment.
speak
▪
It was a good thing we were speaking by phone that first time, Rainville would say later.
▪
Although we worked in I different parts of the country, we often spoke on the phone .
▪
One day Alexander and I were speaking on the phone .
▪
I've already spoken on the phone to the doctors who treated you in Salisbury.
▪
He hates speaking over the phone .
▪
She glanced at him but before he could speak the phone rang.
▪
In his first day, Bulger began boning up on university business and spoke by phone with campus chancellors.
talk
▪
Late last year five women wearing T-shirts were stoned in Dili's central market for dressing inappropriately and talking on mobile phones .
▪
No one wanted to talk on the phone .
▪
Keeping people talking on the phone .
▪
When we talk on the phone , she may hang up on me.
▪
That means you can surf the Net and talk on the phone at the same time over one line.
▪
So a user could be surfing the Net at warp speed while talking on the phone .
▪
Two men on a train almost get into a fistfight because one refuses to stop talking on his cell phone .
tap
▪
Morton, he realized, spoke with the confidence of the man who tapped the phones .
▪
One eye's cut from the flowered turf: a horse skull, whispering secrets with wind-sighs like tapping on phone wires.
use
▪
I could see he'd never used a public phone before.
▪
The student was beaten outside the cafeteria while using the phone after a junior varsity football practice.
▪
Don't go back inside your house to use the phone .
▪
Also, people use the phone today in the strangest ways.
▪
Nigel was glad as it saved him breaking his own rules about using the phone .
▪
They know we have to use the phone to call them.
▪
He would have to use the phone in the hall.
▪
Observer Vivan Riefberg of Alexandria called 911 using a cellular phone .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
answer the phone/a call/the door
call/phone sb collect
leave/take the phone off the hook
put the phone down
▪
After I have put the phone down I sit gazing at Kyle on the opposite side of the airwell.
▪
After she had put the phone down, she felt in a daze.
▪
And he had just put the phone down on the only man who could ruin it all for him.
▪
Be brisk, polite, and put the phone down.
▪
Culley put the phone down, then dialled Mike Dawson's number.
▪
He put the phone down and listened to its ringing - its machine persistence.
▪
He put the phone down in the dining room.
▪
He put the phone down on the cradle and stared at it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Can I use your phone ?
▪
I could hear a phone ringing in the next apartment.
▪
It was another reporter asking questions, so she just slammed down the phone .
▪
What's your phone number?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
I was sorely tempted to show him the way to the phone booth, but I am not a vindictive man.
▪
Many writers feeling good about their contribution have picked up the phone and been told to get cranking again.
▪
One phone call could save a lot of hassle.
▪
Several hours later, I was talking to Pierluigi on the phone in Manhattan.
▪
The phone company maintains that the upgrade will not cause telephone rates to increase.
▪
They've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract!
▪
Why hadn't Doug wanted to tell her on the phone ?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
▪
Moira F. phoned again , he wrote.
▪
Would Tom phone again to tell her what was going on?
▪
He said he would phone again .
▪
About half an hour later, he phoned again .
back
▪
You should make it clear whether you will phone back or whether you wish to be telephoned.
▪
We are now waiting for the specialist to phone back .
▪
He is meticulous in phoning back anyone who calls when he's out.
▪
If only Greene would phone back so we can discuss it!
▪
Too often the executive forgets to phone back until the next day.
▪
At a quarter to twelve he phoned back .
home
▪
Don't phone home from your hotel.
▪
Renouncing the world of work and money, they phone home for funds.
▪
He phoned home but there was no answer.
▪
And it helped that Grant never let us down financially, and phoned home every day.
▪
Maybe when they didn't phone home , the alarm bells rang.
▪
I'd put half a dozen 10p pieces in there to phone home , and I'd only used one.
▪
Tonight Mrs Rennie is hoping her son will phone home .
▪
Only, first I'd phone home . 10.07, Mum'd be up by now.
in
▪
You say the earliest we're going to get the results is nine, so let's just phone in around then.
▪
Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff, he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in.
▪
The station let viewers phone in and say almost what they wanted.
▪
Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad, to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire.
▪
She helped out by taking the copy phoned in by our correspondents around the region.
▪
Now, heavenly bodies. Phone in and give us the benefit of your view.
▪
Any customer who phones in to a P&O Roadtanks depot, can hire a vehicle for a one-off delivery.
up
▪
Anyway I phoned up here before making the journey and they took us round.
▪
She kept phoning up from Harrogate and his dad came too, several times in the first few days.
▪
Instead, they will have to phone up and reserve one of a pool of 100 rotating offices.
▪
Some one phoned up a pre-watershed live show and started telling a joke about putting suppositories up your bum.
▪
She phoned up the doctors and said she'd make an appointment for me.
▪
Dad phoned up and came round and sent furious letters.
▪
It hit me when I phoned up and they said those two had gone.
■ NOUN
cell
▪
Not that he's defending cell phones .
▪
Turns out the call was made on her cell phone in her car.
▪
So he had to call the sheriff on his cell phone .
▪
Some crews actually rope cell phones down to high and dry rock climbers to get information.
day
▪
Since I mentioned this ludicrous example of time-wasting to Julia MacKenzie, she has phoned roughly twice a day .
▪
She phones me every other day .
▪
Amy phoned every day from Manchester to see if he'd been found.
▪
I phoned the ward every day at first, and then weekly, to discuss Mr Allen's progress.
▪
And it helped that Grant never let us down financially, and phoned home every day .
▪
The company's complaints department phoned Susan the next day to tell her who to contact.
evening
▪
One of them phoned the other every evening .
▪
It was her turn to phone Daphne this evening .
▪
I decided to phone him in the evening .
friend
▪
He phoned an old school friend named Andy Rourke.
▪
Branson spent a frantic evening phoning around friends until he found her, and persuaded her to return.
▪
Racing expert John Randall phoned a friend on the £1million astrology question on Monday.
▪
If you think of phoning an old friend , do it!
▪
Jay liked to phone her friends in the morning.
▪
I phoned all her friends , but none of them knew anything.
hospital
▪
Any parent who is worried their child may have been in contact with the doctor can still phone the hospital for advice.
▪
Anyway, she phoned the hospital and made an appointment for me and that was that.
▪
Most clinics are attached to large hospitals so phone the main hospital number and ask to be put through.
morning
▪
She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence.
▪
Anyway, Jennifer phoned the next morning and told me it was all over.
▪
Spittals had already phoned that morning for a progress report.
name
▪
That would teach me to pay more attention, and to put names to phone numbers.
night
▪
They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night !
▪
She'd promised to phone Julie that night to let her know she'd arrived safely and to check on her sister.
number
▪
That would teach me to pay more attention, and to put names to phone numbers .
▪
I return to Cambridge drained, with a pack of photocopies and Lynne Robbins's phone number .
▪
Simple - phone the special local-rate number .
▪
They definitely should phone a number of people to get ideas from different caterers.
▪
He phones that number and obeys the recorded instructions he receives.
▪
P-Trak does offer a variety of other personal information such as names, addresses and phone numbers .
▪
Most clinics are attached to large hospitals so phone the main hospital number and ask to be put through.
▪
Others give you nothing more than a password and phone number .
office
▪
Whenever Shiona phoned - at the office or at his home - she was told that he was unavailable.
▪
A woman's been phoning your office every day: wants to speak to you.
▪
I phoned your office on Friday to confirm that this date is convenient.
▪
You need anything. phone my office and nowhere else.
▪
Later she was seen phoning from the office .
▪
Then he hung up immediately, phoned his office and cancelled his afternoon appointments.
pay
▪
In town one evening we called his mom from a pay phone .
police
▪
You can phone either the police or your relatives, who wish to speak to you.
▪
They were in a store phoning the police when the shots were fired.
▪
On June 5 last year a lodger found Mrs Capper dead in bed and phoned the police .
▪
When they discovered he wasn't home, they'd phone the police .
▪
I phoned the police and they arrested him, then they took me up there.
times
▪
I have phoned Sarah many times and had long talks with her about the welfare of goats.
▪
I phoned Minna several times , but nobody answered.
▪
I did phone , several times , she was never there and I left messages.
▪
She'd phoned the apartment umpteen times , always in secrecy, but never got an answer.
▪
He had phoned a couple of times but she had been out.
▪
She moved soon after that to Thetford in your East Anglia and I was able to phone her there a few times .
▪
But phoned home several times , to say he was happy.
▪
You can phone as many times - and as many different lines - as you like.
week
▪
His agent phoned him last week .
▪
She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land.
■ VERB
address
▪
P-Trak does offer a variety of other personal information such as names, addresses and phone numbers.
try
▪
He tried to phone for help.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
call/phone sb collect
leave/take the phone off the hook
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
I'll phone you if there's any news.
▪
I phoned her apartment, but she wasn't there.
▪
Jill phoned to tell you she'll see you tonight.
▪
Let's phone for a pizza tonight.
▪
You can register for the program by phoning this number.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Any parent who is worried their child may have been in contact with the doctor can still phone the hospital for advice.
▪
He guessed his Mum would phone when she got to work and then maybe again when she took her break at half-three.
▪
He has often been phoned by cold callers trying the masculinity trip on him.
▪
Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work, so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour.
▪
She phones me every other day.
▪
Strawberry phoned the Red Sox Wednesday in an attempt to get talks going but missed Duquette.
▪
The concerned kitchen staff phoned the embassy for a translation.