phone something in

Examples of phoned

phoned

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

I guess another caller had phoned in the fire.
The participants were also phoned three times during the record-keeping phase as reminders and to answer their questions.
He said we would wait until 6am because we can't ring in the night, so we phoned about 6am.
And then five minutes later he phoned me up and played it to me, and said 'you must finish this!'.
She phoned her husband who was on a trip abroad, warning it could not possibly have been an accident.
Similarly, a minority of those who remembered being phoned by a party also recalled being canvassed in person.
Those parents who agreed to be contacted by the researchers were phoned and had the study procedures explained to them.
The reporter phoned the boss of the secretary who was reading a book.
Other things being equal, being phoned by one party raised the chances of being phoned by other parties too.
Altogether 38 cases (23 %) contacted a physician because of the illness : 29 (17 %) consulted, while an additional 9 cases phoned their doctor, only.
Half the people put a question mark next to it, left it blank, or phoned him to find out what it meant.
Finally, their lawyer convinced the clerk to help, and they phoned in advance, checking whether he was in before they made another trek to the office.
The first author phoned twice per month to ask that the caregivers report all new words acquired by their children since the previous home visit or telephone data collection session.
Maria phoned to say she was going to be late.
Maria has phoned to say that pro will be late.
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