Example sentences of "it [prep] the phone " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're not sure about what you should do when , contact your local Agricultural Development Advisory Service ( ADAS ) office : you 'll find it in the phone book under the section devoted to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Foods . |
| 2 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
| 3 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 4 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 5 | I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , there was a little problem , but I do n't think I 'd better talk about it on the phone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She did n't want to discuss it on the phone , that 's all I know . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone . |
| 10 | still have to do measurements they ca n't do it on the phone you see . |
| 11 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 12 | Er you ca you could n't do it on the phone anyway It 's a case of out and er sitting with , having a coffee with the old guy . |
| 13 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 14 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not going to tell you about it over the phone . |
| 16 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 17 | You feel more confident in dealing with that even if it over the phone anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't discuss it over the phone . |
| 19 | And he booked it over the phone , said Is it a standard flat ? which was a silly thing to ask cos to everybody who lives in a house , they 've a standard amount of furniture . |
| 20 | Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out |