Sentence examples for could not phone from inspiring English sources

He could not phone the people he needed to find out what was going on, and he was entirely reliant on us to be told what was happening back in Britain.

Bertha Branch, 78, discovered the power of a system called eNeighbor when she fell to the floor of her Philadelphia apartment late one night without her emergency alert pendant and could not phone for help.

Obviously, she couldn't phone him at home.

I couldn't phone anyone because my battery was dead.

They couldn't phone my Uncle Tony to ask if he'd take me on.

The photographer did not have a phone and could not call anyone to have them followed.

She even tried to be Encyclopedia Brown for a moment, reminding Mr. Condit to no effect that he could not have phoned Ms. Levy on the nonexistent April 31.

"Couldn't you phone down the line somewhere and ask," the gentleman suggested.

"I couldn't even phone my nephew and niece, who were my world".

Five years ago, phones and PDAs were distinct devices: phones did not contain calendars or e-mail programs, and PDAs could not make phone calls.

It began in 1980 when Mr. Hill learned that inmates could not make phone calls from prison.