Example sentences of "talking [prep] the telephone " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 3 | She found him in Reception talking on the telephone . |
| 4 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 5 | Talking on the telephone |
| 6 | Nobel Prizewinner Professor Brian Josephson , a Cambridge physicist , believes there may be similarities between healing and telepathy as examples of non-local interaction — that is , causing an effect without visible physical means ( local interaction would involve conventional energy/matter interacting , like talking on the telephone ) . |
| 7 | He say , I stand beside her , hear her talking on the telephone ; her boss call her , say come to work . |
| 8 | Mr Ross was talking on the telephone in his office . |
| 9 | ‘ You know what you 've got , not talking on the telephone , ’ the foreman said . |
| 10 | And Jacko Roberts was talking on the telephone to Dalziel . |
| 11 | But talking on the telephone is no substitute for holding the little girl Libby loves so much . |
| 12 | A natural interpretation ( by an observer or analyst ) of this deictic set-up is that A and B are talking on the telephone . |
| 13 | Because over the coming months I suspect that as a result of the E P A you are going to be called on more and more for information , for putting out press releases , for talking to people , for talking on the telephone , I mean , every single newspaper now seems to have an environmental reporter , and you 're going to be , I suspect , right in the forefront of it . |