Sentence examples for but phoned from inspiring English sources

Co-op customer Jane Morley (@jm3twink) tweeted: "Just had a panic as couldn't draw cash out but phoned bank & all Smile systems are down".

Update: Hirsch did not talk to the owner but phoned several animal-welfare agencies and was either put on hold or shunted to voice mail; no human discussed the matter with him.

Despite these confusions, Welby denied that the church was woolly in its preaching in a testy exchange with the former Conservative cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe, who left the Church of England over its support of female priests in 1992, but phoned in on Friday to attack it.

"He [Blair] was very nervous about doing it, but phoned me up and said: 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go.' I saw him a couple of months later, and again very nervously he said: 'How is it?' I said: 'Well, I have to say I still think you made a mistake, and quite a lot of people out there think you did too.' To which he had the decency to say: 'I know.

They were on the right track with the triple-play action, but phoned it in for the rest.

According to an anecdote related by Samuel R. Delany, when Sturgeon first submitted the story, the editor (John W. Campbell) not only rejected it but phoned every other editor he knew and urged them to reject it as well.

I know it's not millionaire but phone a friend anyways.

He left messages, but nobody phoned back.

"But I phoned up just in case".

But Baskin phoned Meidan the day he took the job.

But phones often take more exotic paths.