Example sentences of "up [art] telephone [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic examples of awkward questions are the salesman 's special dread , as the interviewer picks up the telephone directory and says , ‘ Sell me this ’ , and the totally unpredictable , ‘ What star sign are you ? ’ |
| 2 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 3 | She picked up the telephone receiver , disbelievingly , and dialled the number of the card . |
| 4 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 5 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 6 | No pick up the telephone ring . |
| 7 | The idea is to set up a Telephone Preference Service . |
| 8 | Like a circus Hercules demonstrating how to tear up a telephone directory , he showed me how I too could dismantle a board with my mouth . |
| 9 | Almost anyone can set up a telephone information service . |
| 10 | Meanwhile farmers in Oxfordshire worried about travellers camping out on their land are setting up a telephone hotline to stop invasions . |
| 11 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 12 | Detectives hunting the killer of a prostitute have set up a telephone hot-line for women who work in a city 's red light area . |
| 13 | Compaq is also expected to announce details of its first comprehensive mail-order campaign this week — it is preparing a catalogue in the US that will offer Compaq computers , monitors and printers , as well as other companies ' software and peripherals , and has set up a telephone bank at its Houston campus to handle incoming calls on a toll-free telephone number , a move that will put Compaq into direct competition with fellow Texan , Austin-based Dell Computer Corp . |