get through to
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Mr Edwards added: "You can't get through to anyone on the phone - when you do they don't believe you."
From BBC
Ellie called me 29 times in half an hour to try to get through to me and make sure I was OK.
From Salon
"No one is able to get through to their loved ones," Trevor 'Zyanigh' Whyte told the BBC from the town of White House in Westmoreland parish.
From BBC
With matches to come against Atletico Madrid, who beat Austrian side SV Polten 6-0 away from home, next week, then French heavyweights PSG and Lyon, plus Juventus, United needed to win to stand any chance of reaching the 'nine to 12 points' Skinner thinks will be needed to get through to the knockout stages.
From BBC
The move, ordered by the government, is aimed at reducing the so-called '8am scramble' to get through to practices on the phone.
From BBC
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