Example sentences of "to [pers pn] on the telephone " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 2 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 3 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 4 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 5 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 6 | So why I said to you on the telephone as you say it 's not what you say it 's the way you say it . |
| 7 | So the experiences , although it 's got nothing to do with your product , is what is gon na actually happen to you on the telephone out there . |
| 8 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 9 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 10 | I spoke to him on the telephone . ’ |
| 11 | She did not reply to his cards , and when she spoke to him on the telephone he said she always declined his invitations firmly . |
| 12 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 13 | Erm , after the last meeting , erm I wrote to Mr Dicks of Newton Sherwood about the er electoral role they er draft one with one or two amendments , I also wrote back to the Nottinghamshire valuation tribunal , who asked us for er maps and centres of our population which we could n't supply , also wrote to the services , erm which will supply er Smiths erm bungalow on Poor Lane , informing them of our interest off Poor Lane , erm , and also to erm footpaths off this to Mr Jones about the same thing , because Poor Lane is public footpath , erm subsequently I spoke to him on the telephone and erm he advised us that erm they have an interest in it , erm , have received from Notts County Council a little booklet , which |
| 14 | ‘ We often spoke to her on the telephone , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 15 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 16 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 17 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 18 | Yes , we would be dependent on the referring doctor 's interpretation of the X-ray films , and they would relate that to us on the telephone and we would then have to form a , a mental image of what the problem was and then advise on how we thought things ought to go on . |