11.   The family called police and they contacted his friends.

12.   The tip from the Marlow, Okla., police department indicated that Bagwell may have tried to contact a friend from the pay phone on Tuesday night.

13.   They contacted a friend who is an architect to work with them on renovating the building.

14.   When Dorris West came back to town after a long absence, she contacted African-American friends about a bridge game.

15.   When the police contacted the friend, she knew details of the crime, including information that had never been revealed to the public.

16.   Banot was arrested after contacting a friend, Richard Killen, who then told the store security chief there was no one else involved.

17.   Date, who lived in Kobe for four years as a teen-ager, said she felt sorry for Sawamatsu and also had been trying to contact friends in Kobe.

18.   Hall then contacted a friend who wrote a column for a North Carolina newspaper.

19.   He contacted a friend to raise money for the buy-back exercise.

20.   One-fifth of the online youths say they use instant messaging most often to contact friends.