Example sentences of "[verb] up the receiver " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 2 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
| 3 | Before she could finish her sentence , Charles had stepped briskly across the room and snatched up the receiver . |
| 4 | The telephone rang and Rust snatched up the receiver . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Sorry , ’ and snatched up the receiver . |
| 6 | She snatched up the receiver and sat wetly on the bed . |
| 7 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 8 | My hands dart indignantly about my desk as if they were offended mice , opening files , annotating minutes , picking up the receiver . |
| 9 | The N.C.O. answered it and when he had hung up the receiver it rang again . |
| 10 | Whisky slopped onto his hand as he hurried to pick up the receiver . |
| 11 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 12 | Just pick up the receiver and get it over with . ’ |
| 13 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 14 | So there 's no , even talking if necessary , once they get onto the fire engine , they pick up the receiver then and book-on mobile which tells the Control where they are going , and once at the situation then the conversation is done by , by radio telephone . |
| 15 | What we have to say is , straight from Essex Police if that happens to you , get out , wherever possible on the passenger 's side of the vehicle and then go to your nearest box and then you pick up the receiver and get through the police control room and they will ask you a series of questions , have you broken down ? |
| 16 | you see I 've got one in the front room and I had this one put in so then I say if I am in the kitchen , I say , I lift up the receiver , hello , and hear who it is and then I , I say hang on while I get round the chair and then you see I sit on the arm of this chair and talk because er it 's difficult to stand too long |
| 17 | He hung up the receiver . |
| 18 | Vic picks up the receiver . |
| 19 | Sleepily a hand reaches out and picks up the receiver . |
| 20 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she queried evenly on taking up the receiver — and an instant later , Lubor 's apologetic tones hit her ears . |
| 22 | If only she would pick up the receiver . |
| 23 | The phone went on ringing , and finally , irritated , she stumbled off the bed and picked up the receiver from the floor where Phoebe usually left the phone . |
| 24 | Tremayne picked up the receiver and grunted ‘ Hello ? ’ , not all his vexation yet dissipated . |
| 25 | As soon as she picked up the receiver I 'd say , ‘ It 's Robina , ’ and then cut off . |
| 26 | Nick picked up the receiver and listened for a moment , before muttering ‘ Wrong number ’ and hanging up . |
| 27 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |
| 28 | So he picked up the receiver and waited . |
| 29 | He reached out , and picked up the receiver . |
| 30 | He picked up the receiver and carefully unscrewed the ear — and mouth pieces , peering inside . |