answer the phone
answer the telephone

Either he wasn't in or he'd decided not to answer the telephone.

I got him out of bed to answer his telephone.

Right away I had to leave it to answer the telephone.

"Without the tax, they would not even answer the telephone."

A man who answers the telephone is asked why people buy eyes and what they do with them.

I kept myself busy working out, then went home and didn't answer the telephone.

I'd told him exactly what happened from the time May answered the telephone to the moment we found her in the river.

A woman who answered the telephone said he was not at home.

One was to make sure I answered the telephone myself.

Call the district's one school, and a child answers the telephone.