After half-an-hour's walk, the woman finds a public telephone and dials the number of the Women's Domestic Violence Crisis Service.
You're walking past all these ancient knobs and dials and tape machines.
It dials up the pre-programmed service and customers are only charged for the track, not the data transmission.
Telstra dials up wireless price cuts.
We sit next to a fax machine that bleeps furiously as it dials and redials a number.
Playing to the trope of the mad Victorian inventor, he heeds no laws to civilise the ornate tangle of copper wires, dials, brass fixtures, cogs, pistons.