Example sentences of "phone up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 2 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 3 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 4 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 5 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 6 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 7 | so then the housekeeper phoned up the doctor in October |
| 8 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 9 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 10 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
| 11 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 12 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 13 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 14 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 15 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 16 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 17 | Well he said to Dave that a policeman has n't got the clout to phone up the erm driving place you know in London where , where you thought that , what 's it called D L V C |
| 18 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 19 | Philip says oh yeah , here you go but he 's , on Monday he 's going to phone up the mobility people |
| 20 | Phone up the London police ? ’ |
| 21 | Of course , i er sometimes people phone up the Fire Brigade and the Fire Brigade get to the fire |