Phoning

Jim could hear whom she was phoning.

He'll be out at lunch now, so there's no point phoning straight away.

He keeps on phoning me, and I really don't want to talk to him.

And so it seems she tried phoning but it's who was on the other end of that phone that was the problem.

You were phoning your sister.

I'm phoning to make an appointment with you.

I'm phoning to set up a meeting with you.

Thanks for phoning.

You should tell Tom that Mary would prefer him to stop phoning her.

"I can't find Tom." "Try phoning him."

So after all this hurry and hustle in the house, the coffee and papers and phonings, the soundings and measurements over the whole place, I was instructed to take off my apron and sit down […]