Example sentences of "call from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also suggested that should the Chancellor need to make urgent calls to the International Monetary Fund , his telephone at home was likely to be more secure than calls from a hotel in Blackpool surrounded by journalists . |
| 2 | Regular calls from a carer or warden in sheltered housing may be helpful . |
| 3 | They brought in this computerised call system which meant I took all my calls from a computer [ thumps dashboard ] here . |
| 4 | Telepoint will offer outgoing calls from a pocket handset . |
| 5 | ‘ I got a call from a cop who asked if I owned it . |
| 6 | Phone call from a parent saying she can not make next week 's appointment . |
| 7 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 8 | Imagine old George getting a phone call from a friend . |
| 9 | ‘ Six years ago , Graham Carlin from MMD had a phone call from a friend of his who is a lecturer at the college and was on holiday in Scotland with a group of his colleagues , ’ said Hunterston goalie Gibbie Kerr . |
| 10 | I think it was within a month or so of his departure that I received a phone call from a friend of mine at Grantham : " Look , for God 's sake let's get rid of this Dutch friend of yours , he 's a menace . " |
| 11 | It would seem so after we received a phone call from a North Wales resident who was bringing some American pals over to our fair city to sample some entertaining nights out in Liverpool . |
| 12 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
| 13 | And we had an irate call from a listener , er was it yesterday or the day before , saying , I want you to ring me . |
| 14 | ‘ I had thought about it , ’ she returned , ‘ but I had a fairly frantic call from a theatre director down in Sheffield . ’ |
| 15 | One even refused to respond to an urgent call from a nurse two days before Mrs Craig died . |
| 16 | I had no premonition of disaster when I was sent off to answer a call from a Mrs Dunston . |
| 17 | She was in no fit state to receive a call from a gentleman . |
| 18 | cos they 'll be , whe ah well they might , you know you never know if you get a phone call from a school do you ? |
| 19 | ‘ One time , back in the Metaltronix days , I got a call from a violinist who was in one of the Philharmonic orchestras , and she was using a Perfect Connection preamp for her electric violin . |
| 20 | But the call charges are significantly higher — in London a peak rate call from a LowCall cellphone costs 54p per minute compared with 33p from a normal Vodafone business mobile . |
| 21 | Details of Mr Blair 's conversation with Sinn Fein over his planned visits emerged after Sunday Life received a phone call from a person claiming to be a Sinn Fein election agent . |
| 22 | In July , a German magazine received a phone call from a man alleging to have vital information about the Princess and a man . |
| 23 | A telephone call from a man claiming to be Nadirpur 's security adviser . |
| 24 | Then we had a telephone call from a man who saw you in a hotel here . ’ |
| 25 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 26 | ‘ My amah told me you left in a hurry after a phone call from a man ! ’ |
| 27 | The elderly woman , who has not been identified , initially received a telephone call from a man with a foreign accent purporting to be an official from her bank in Chester . |
| 28 | While Marks 's inquiry into Inez 's disappearance was going on he had a call from a Colonel Armitage , son of the old lady Inez lived with before she married . ’ |
| 29 | In the summer we received a phone call from a lady living up on Davidstow , which is a level stretch of moorland below Roughtor and Brown Willy , the high points of Bodmin Moor . |
| 30 | Recently I had a frustrated 'phone call from a club member . |