A shy young man keeps interrupting with phone calls, and Walter complains mildly about the lack of a secretary.
Often they'd be interrupted by phone calls about Bosnia, or Chelsea needing help with homework.
Time to get ready in the morning: "Twenty minutes, if I don't get interrupted by phone calls".
Jean makes decisions thoughtlessly and on the fly; revelations are often interrupted by phone calls, honking car horns, other bad news.
"If you brought your lunch from home or got food in the cafeteria and took it to the nursing unit, you would be interrupted by phone calls, by physicians and family members who wanted to talk to you.
As they sat in the rabbi's office, Tokayer recalls that they were repeatedly interrupted by phone calls: a Jewish couple that needed marital counselling, two Jewish businessmen having a dispute, a scholar in China with questions about anti-Semitism.
Trump's lawyers found it difficult to get the president to focus on drafting the submission, according to people familiar with the sessions.Trump's meetings with his lawyers were frequently interrupted by phone calls and other White House business.
"Being constantly interrupted by phone calls, e-mail, text messaging and all the rest certainly keeps you busy," he wrote, "which for some can be terrifically satisfying, but it ain't real work".
Sakharov spoke warmly of Mr. Gorbachev, always referring to him as Mikhail Sergeyevich, using the name and patronymic in the Russian style, and calling him "an intelligent man". But dinner was twice interrupted by phone calls concerning developments in Armenia and Georgia.
Through-out the evening, Firas was interrupted by phone calls, including one from his boss, who wanted to talk about the eleventh-hour invitation to Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei to return to Baghdad to discuss Iraq's offer of "accelerated coöperation" on the issue of disarmament.
