Example sentences of "rang up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang up the boss , and said We 've got the right number have n't we , Lilac Avenue ? |
| 2 | ‘ Well , what was it you rang up the Yard to tell me ? ’ |
| 3 | Rang up the treasury again . |
| 4 | I rang up the ticket office but just got a recorded message . |
| 5 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 6 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 7 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |
| 8 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 9 | so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ? |
| 10 | I rang up the doctor . |
| 11 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 12 | I announced his name at Reception , and the girl rang up the guy and said , ‘ Your taxi 's here … . ’ |
| 13 | Just rang up the LUFC ticket office ( got through first time , is this a record ? ) and all the tickets for Cov have sold out . |
| 14 | Just rang up the Dial-a-ticket but there 's no news as to when the tickets for the Oxford match are available . |
| 15 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 16 | She often rang up the producer and had a go at him and made him swear never to do anything like that again . |