Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the telephone " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I flew over there two hours ago , ’ Woolley told the telephone . |
| 2 | Mait lifted the telephone . |
| 3 | As they approached the front door of Greystones Helen heard the telephone ringing within . |
| 4 | Clarissa snatched the telephone from him . |
| 5 | Adam answered the telephone on the first ring . |
| 6 | As Adam replaced the telephone , his guest was announced — a small , mild-looking , bald man who looked at least fifteen years older than his actual age of thirty-five . |
| 7 | Still groggy from sleep , Shelley shifted the telephone to her other hand . |
| 8 | Following him through the dark , panelled and tapestried hall , Daisy noticed the telephone off the hook in the drawing room , then froze . |
| 9 | Billy slammed the telephone down . |
| 10 | Derek put the telephone down slowly , frowning as he did so . |
| 11 | Christina replaced the telephone , deep in thought . |
| 12 | Midge answered the telephone call that came next morning . |
| 13 | Rohmer was already moving to join them as Cardiff replaced the telephone receiver and pushed away from the reception desk . |
| 14 | Members based outside of London used the telephone service or wrote to the library for answers to 1,465 queries about banking practice . |
| 15 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 16 | His fax was created 30 years before fellow-Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone . |