Example sentences of "to someone on the " in BNC.

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1 I got this real urge to speak to someone on the phone — I du n no who — just someone .
2 A big , broad-shouldered man pushed between us to shout to someone on the street , gesturing at him with a huge banana .
3 It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore .
4 When you speak to someone on the telephone it is easier for you to represent your company or organization .
5 Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid .
6 For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road .
7 She could hear what sounded like Ace talking to someone on the phone as she picked up her coat and shrugged herself into it .
8 After a time she heard him talking to someone on the telephone , but , when he did n't reappear immediately , gathered that he had no news for her .
9 but it 's now erm , if the phone rings and he picks it up ah , er and he 's talking to someone on the phone someone else tries to ring
10 It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important .
11 If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ?
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