| Four taxi cabs turned up and another four would have arrived if Mr Banks had not phoned the cab company. |
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| After having accepted the invite, two hours before the start of the game he phoned me to say he wasn't coming. |
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| She phoned about three quarters of an hour later, apologising that the line got chopped off, and in a better humour. |
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| Stephen phoned out of the blue, haven't spoken to him in over three months! |
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| I went to Fairwater garage today for my MOT, phoned today and they slotted me in straight away. |
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| A worried passer-by spotted the couple sheltering in a cove and phoned for help. |
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| After I crossed the finish line, I phoned my wife to tell her I had finished in one piece. |
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| The watchman phoned the emergency services and other colleagues after the alarm activated. |
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| It is unlikely that I would have phoned up for tickets if I wasn't a contrary so-and-so. |
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| A QC said I could take him to the cleaners for half his fortune, but I wanted to sort it out amicably so I phoned him. |
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| On one occasion, he even phoned me to apologise, and sighed down the phone at the vagaries of his schedule. |
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| I didn't stop to weigh things up, but phoned for an ambulance and described the scene. |
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| My mother covered him with blankets, and a neighbor phoned the local chapter of the Humane Society for help. |
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| Well, she phoned yesterday in the morning and left a message on my voicemail. |
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| I have phoned the council on numerous times and other people have made complaints as well. |
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| I listened in on an extension when Frank phoned Jack at Bute House to be told his fate. |
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| Our nurse had phoned the director of the maternity unit and the hospital administrator on call. |
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| She was phoned back not by the MP, but by a special adviser to the secretary of state. |
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| One elderly radio listener phoned a call-in program to assert that she had read, somewhere, that Lincoln was black. |
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| Wei Hui only discovered this when she phoned her publisher to discuss royalties. |
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| Even as it was happening, the onlooking neighbours phoned the police with details of the car, its occupants and the stolen goods. |
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| But a couple of days ago he phoned and said he could take a duvet day sometime this week and we could go for a picnic in Kearsney Abbey. |
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| I phoned my good friend Chloe, who was about to go on holiday and was looking for a catsitter. |
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| Mum phoned me while I was on tour and told me the doctors said there was cause for concern. |
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| The next day Phil phoned me asking what had happened as he'd blanked out in the pub and when he came round everyone had gone. |
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| He evidently knew by now that I wasn't going to show up and he still hadn't phoned. |
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| Last Friday, I phoned up the company that insures my car, as they had overcharged me. |
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| And, when a spokesman from the breakfast show phoned to tell him the good news, John put the phone down thinking it was a wind-up. |
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| Other translators of his work have phoned me, thanking me for unpacking some of his more enigmatic sentences. |
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| The action worked like a charm and the very next day the contractor phoned to capitulate. |
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| Even then you had to wait whilst he phoned and laid the bet off before they accepted it. |
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| She was dismayed to discover that when she phoned to make an appointment for a routine check-up late last year she could not do so. |
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| So everything is tootling along groovily, and then the ex-Girl phoned me up last night. |
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| One woman phoned us to say she would leave but her partner threatened to do to her what he did to his wife if she did. |
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| I phoned Chris, my best friend when I was ten and now a Dublin journalist, and we staggered into an anonymous grey building. |
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| There was still no sign of any police ten minutes after I phoned them so I made a decision. |
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| I phoned up my local private hospital, and made an appointment for the following Thursday! |
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| The evening after her photo shoot in Chicago a friend of hers phoned to say that they had missed her after the show. |
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| Jesse Ventura is brought up, but Dave says towards the end he phoned it in. |
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| I even phoned up the AA guide to let them know about it and they have now given Malik's two rosettes. |
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| They phoned the police who logged the incident, but didn't hold much hope in getting her back. |
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| A representative of the British Olympic Association actually phoned me up to ask if he was making a political statement. |
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| I phoned your office and was told that you had not booked the appointment in your diary and that you were feeling ill. |
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| She phoned me up and we pondered it for a few minutes, before realising the PC in question didn't have any speakers. |
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| And a lawyer who phoned said that he needed an attack dog to fend off some of his previous clients. |
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| I got home from the hospital and they phoned me up immediately to say they were taking her to theatre, so I had to go straight back. |
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| Kate's dad Ron phoned me up to tell me and when I heard I couldn't take it in. |
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| Frank phoned me up after Silverstone last year and things started to firm up over the winter. |
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| One person detectives are particularly anxious to speak to is a woman who phoned a few days after the assault. |
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| Well, I'm as curious as the next man, so I phoned one of my mates from the Yard. |
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| He visited his doctor who sent him home and when he phoned later that afternoon his chest pains were still bad so an ambulance was called. |
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| Van Straaten said all the Nedcor clients who had phoned him wanted to know whether he had any information about their banking details. |
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| I went outside and phoned all our friends and family, and came back to the ward to hear your mother screaming with pain. |
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| Someone could have phoned him to suggest a very private talk at a secluded place in the woods. |
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| Worries that bad luck always comes in threes were soon proved well-founded when a third cast member phoned to say he had also injured his ankle. |
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| He was not at the count as he was unable to take a day off work but delighted supporters phoned to let him know the result. |
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| A resident phoned police who arrived to help corner the horse into the fenced school oval. |
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| We phoned a place in Toronto to send for replacement instruments, but made the mistake of telling them they'd probably been stolen. |
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| We sat around drinking and not smoking until she phoned upstairs and asked him to keep the noise down. |
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| Before bedtime I am phoned by Jeff, an Australian I sometimes meet after Sunday church. |
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| She could hear voices, she phoned the police, and 45 minutes later came PC Plod. |
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| He phoned a pal who told him to try to ease the mischievous kitten from under the machine using cooking oil. |
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| By coincidence, a few hours earlier one of White's many underworld contacts had phoned offering information. |
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| While his wife phoned the fire brigade, Mr Nugent went inside to see if anyone was trapped but was soon beaten back. |
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| She phoned her boyfriend who lived down the road and he dashed to her aid. |
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| Last week, a Politico reporter phoned me to ascertain my thoughts on the new war. |
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| The raids followed a series of complaints from investors in Australia, who were phoned by salespeople in Bangkok and invited to buy shares in Japan and Hong Kong. |
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| The person who had phoned the Halls had, quite simply, misread the results. |
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| When Downing Street phoned to tell him, he thought it was a wind-up. |
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| When Smith phoned the American Embassy in Rome to ask for assistance, he says the couple was treated like second-rate citizens. |
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| When the emissary phoned him to say the fee had been refused, he said he had meetings and could not talk. |
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| I would like to thank everyone who phoned to ask after Matt. |
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| Catherine burst into tears of relief when she saw her result posted on the college information board, and so did her parents when she phoned them at home in Old Trafford. |
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| After Shafi phoned him about the book, Peer drove up to the capital city of Srinagar with a copy of Curfewed Night. |
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| A month ago, on March 7, Munley phoned Whiskey Creek, the biggest country-western bar in Killeen, the town adjoining to Fort Hood. |
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| He phoned an assistant and asked him to kinescope the game off its television broadcast. |
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| Because you've phoned to say something about a submission, someone may write down your name and the title of your book, and pass the note on to the slush readers. |
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| He phoned the police and described his jacket in minute detail. |
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| Apparently, one anxious publisher phoned on behalf of a distinguished philosopher who'd misread the invitation letter and thought he was required to pay to take part. |
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| Dice had just finished a stand-up show in Westbury, and his manager phoned to tell him Woody Allen wanted a meeting. |
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| I phoned Henning late that night in a phone booth near the restaurant. |
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| Selina phoned me this morning from the bottle store in her village. |
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| They later phoned her to tell her that a car resembling her blue soft-top was stolen from a garage recently and had her registration number on it. |
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| Just yesterday I phoned a new vendor we're dealing with, and was initially pleased to hear he didn't seem to have shot up a speedball before midday for once. |
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| Persons repeatedly phoned and visited his home outside business hours seeking his assistance with processing their applications for housing loans. |
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| The people I did get on with have all phoned to say bye, including my one senior ally who thought I should never have been made to do those dreaded phone calls. |
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| I phoned her to say loads of my constituents will do it for nothing! |
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| One day I was expecting an important call so I rang my home telephone from a public call box and keyed into my messaging service to see if anyone had phoned. |
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| Someone had phoned Aunt Rachel, nearly giving her a heart attack with the news that her vanished brother's children had been found and one had been arrested for dealing drugs. |
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| I phoned Hari but he was out, so I left a message with his concierge. |
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| He waited until the game at Celtic Park was over and then phoned his son. |
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| She took a bus to get here and phoned me from a payphone when she arrived. |
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| I was worried I was going to spend the day faffing and not get anything done, but I picked up the phone and with some trepidation phoned my first choice farm. |
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| My Egyptian friend had phoned me up and asked if I would like to go with her to see the Agricultural College where she studies, and meet her fellow students. |
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| I phoned them up and challenged them on this and they admitted it. |
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| At least I had the sense of calling in sick this morning and when my boss phoned me up to check on me he asked if I wanted tomorrow off as well, which I gladly agreed to. |
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| They phoned us up today asking if we do get to do the show, would be want to play live or play to a backing tape and if we can we're going to play live. |
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| Some people have phoned us up and have come in and made statements. |
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| Later that night while I was watering the ficus, Mic finally phoned. |
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| He phoned the Gardai in Claremorris before investigating further. |
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| My teacher phoned me and threatened to flunk me if I didn't go to class. |
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| Since he phoned the headline in, I thought I'd offer some help. |
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| Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating. |
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| The reaction to the show at the time was that many people phoned the police and warned them that the forces of darkness had been unleashed upon the nation. |
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| He phoned elderly Americans and persuaded them to reveal their numbers and then he punched them into a handy machine in his home, which printed the new card. |
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| From a call box he phoned Susan and was surprised to get an answer. |
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| When Chandler phoned Mitchell later that day to offer him the position, he readily accepted. |
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| When phoned at the Chelsea that morning, he said he was feeling ill and postponed the engagement. |
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| The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we? |
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| The Canadian advisor said that Arum phoned to inform them about Mayweather's counteroffers. |
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| They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other! |
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| Gary and Mum went mental, and Gary phoned them up and had a right Barney with them. |
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| Lynn Carbarns phoned police to report her three-month-old Fiat Punto stolen from outside her home. |
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| A few hours later my mother phoned and asked me if Budgie Smugglers was the name of a Bond Girl. |
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| Mel B, 34, who organised the bash, told us they phoned Posh during the meal. |
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| Millions did and, frankly, I would have done the same, but nobody phoned. |
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| Observers phoned their reports to officers on the ground who then relayed the information to those who needed it. |
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| Every few days, I phoned him and checked on how she was doing. |
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| The Western Cape High Court heard that Tongo had phoned the witness on 12 November 2010 asking if knew of a hitman. |
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| I phoned to complain but they claimed they had no record of the promotion and I had to pay full whack. |
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| I phoned and was told my claim had not been processed, and I was to hand in my P45, which I did the next day. |
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| Lesley was at Portobello beach near her Edinburgh home with son Hayden, five, when her partner phoned to tell her he'd seen a tarantula in her boiler cupboard. |
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| So as not to be proven a liar, Khrushchev phoned back to Russia demanding that a statue of Nikitin be built immediately, before Nehru's state visit to Russia. |
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| She eventually phoned her manager, who told her she was a businesswoman. |
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| Earlier, I phoned Mark Brisbourne, because I was thinking of backing Weet Yer Tern and the ever-infuriating Wood Fern for places in the opening two races at Lingfield. |
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| I phoned and asked her to meet me with wodges of kitchen roll. |
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| So we just phoned Dave up and said 'Look, come down, let's see how this works out', and everyone loved what we were doing, so we decided to stay with him. |
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| The pap phoned and we told him that Kirschner probably peddled them himself and now was accusing you of acting underhanded so he did not have out to pay out any more dough. |
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| Almost immediately, his assistant phoned back and said, 'Paul loves it. |
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| When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses. |
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