Hints and tips:
...A special telephone line laid in the dead of night to the rebels’ secret headquarters allows its leaders to eavesdrop on government communications, giving them a crucial advantage....
...A few days later, the telephone rang. While they were running for shelter, a commandeered ferry had approached one of the piers, and my mother and brother had jumped in....
...He remembers speaking to her over the telephone on the night she died. “When she rang me on the Friday, she said, ‘Oh Dale, I’m a little drunk’, and I said, ‘Well, you don’t sound it.’...
...The other day I was sitting at home trying to write something in a hurry when the phone rang....
...The FT has sought to contact the State Grain Operator but could not reach it on advertised telephone numbers....
...He rang me the next morning, we spoke for an hour and we spoke every morning, every day for the next 20 years: an education and a delight....
...I rang 123 for the Speaking Clock today, not to know the time, but just to check it was still there....
...A day later the phone rang. It was Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, ending Sakharov’s internal exile....
...Much like the field of communications where the ageing infrastructure of telephone poles, cables and exchanges have been designed out, this neighbourhood would not only be doing its job more elegantly, it...
...The telephone rang constantly and a stream of people popped in to pick up orders in hot foil containers stacked in brown paper bags. “Hello, Barbara, yes, you’ll pick up in 20 mins?”...
...She writes to Kate of “eyeing the telephone receiver . . . like a hungry dog eyeing a bone”....
...His wife — a maths professor — woke him to to say that their mobile phone, internet and telephone landline had all gone dead....
...When he rang back no one would pick up. Mr Rukundo, a British citizen who lives in Leeds, had reason to be suspicious....
...During one particularly difficult year the telephone rarely rang, entire sittings were empty and several of his staff walked out....
...The telephone rang and Markovic answered. The two men watched, amazed, as she snapped: “Please don’t call him at home. Call him at the office.”...
...Mrs May’s allies admitted that the weekend telephone calls were “mixed” in their tone....
...Being registered with the Telephone Preference Service, and diligently ticking the “do not share my data” box when ordering things online has made no difference....
...He was able to do so because much of what he accused Fide of rang true....
...The teenage Cassell made a beeline for the nearest telephone. It was the Solihull News he rang with the story, not his parents to say he was safe. The Birmingham Post followed....
...The one word “badger” sent me straight to the telephone in search of a chemical cure....
...My other third then rang Amazon. They suggested that we claim on our house insurance. But the drone was faulty, we said. A second telephone call was more fruitful....
...“If the telephone rang in GCHQ from the White House, that in itself would be unheard of....
...A few weeks ago — and less than a month into his new life as an ex-president — Robert Mugabe received a rather awkward telephone call. It was his protégé on the line....
...“If the telephone rang in GCHQ from the White House, that in itself would be unheard of,” Sir David said....
...Underneath on this golden ticket there was an email address and a telephone number, charged at a rather high rate. I had craved excitement and there it was, large as life in my hand....
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