Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] phone " in BNC.
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| 31 | While he was on the phone Lyn 's sister had come in , big-boned , yellow-haired Joanne , only nineteen and married six months . |
| 32 | A constable appeared at the door to say that DI Eddy Russell was on the phone for the superintendent . |
| 33 | The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 34 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 35 | Brassard was on the phone : ‘ The thing is , Jim , the rotary feed is a revolutionary new concept . ’ |
| 36 | Celia was on the phone to Jeremy Murgatroyd . |
| 37 | Your grandparents seem to be fairly cheerful — Ken was on the phone last night , about some editing procedures connected with a project he 's recently undertaken . |
| 38 | At nine o'clock he and the transient education officer were still sitting in the ante-room reading old copies of Country Life when the mess sergeant came in to say Mr Sims was on the phone . |
| 39 | I feel well and th and I try er and my husband 's nieces they often ring me up er well I was on the phone to one of them when you came yesterday . |
| 40 | And indeed , within the week was on the phone with the details of 's bank balance . |
| 41 | ‘ Mum was on the phone Sunday . |
| 42 | I told you how he was on the phone that day , I mean , he had n't the foggiest idea of what , what he was doing or where he was going , I do n't know . |
| 43 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 44 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 45 | He was on the phone , and after glancing up briefly at her , he ignored her until he 'd finished . |
| 46 | This was our one holiday a year and 3 days of that holiday I was on the phone . |
| 47 | Gerald Smith said the visa restrictions would be lifted and was on the phone to a woman in the United States to tell her how her $500 gift would be spent . |
| 48 | It has n't seemed that long because for ten of them she was on the phone and another ten in shoe shops . |
| 49 | NED KELLY , the dirtiest comic this side of the ozone layer , never swore once when he was on the phone the other day . |
| 50 | For instance , when I was promoted to the Football League line , Alan Dawson was on the phone immediately welcoming me . |
| 51 | ‘ I came in from work on the Monday night when Ray was on the phone . |
| 52 | Anyway , erm Raymond was on the phone because he was tal and I was saying to Jim tell him I do n't want him to come if the ra if the road 's cut off to Blythe I do n't want him to get stuck , I mean , he 's got a wife |
| 53 | No , not at the min not at the min I have n't erm , there was one shoved through just this morning and I was on the phone I just picked it up and I shoved it on the |
| 54 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 55 | , when she was on the phone . |
| 56 | Anyway when I went in the phone was on the hook , and I said who was on the phone ? |
| 57 | Cos she was on the phone crying that er she 's got a hole in the side of her house sort of thing . |
| 58 | someone was on the phone . |
| 59 | Then I was on the phone in na lower school . |
| 60 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |