Sentence examples for they were phoning from inspiring English sources

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They were phoning Harry [Gebber] to ask him if it was true.' The move never materialised.

Mr. Dworsky of Consumer World a former consumer protection lawyer for the state of Massachusetts, read the Globe article and wondered whether some credit card companies' phone systems recognized callers if they were phoning in from a particular number.

"There was huge excitement over the first boat, and then they were phoning the office saying they'd found another, and another, and another, until finally we were thinking, 'Come on now, you're just being greedy,'" Panter said.

For Ewen MacAskill, "what was heartening was the number – most of them – who said that they were phoning because the year had been so bleak, with Brexit and then Trump, and the Guardian was a place they could turn to for solace.

"There was huge excitement over the first boat, and then they were phoning the office saying they'd found another, and another, and another, until finally we were thinking, 'Come on now, you're just being greedy,'" Ian Panter, principal conservator at the York Archaeological Trust and the researcher behind the boats' preservation strategy, told the Guardian.

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Others look like they were phoned in.

On Thursday evening, they were phoned by someone from the hotel who told them they would eventually be rescued.

Only two GPs faxed their agreement-sheet within the first week, before they were phoned and interviewed by the principal investigator.

After two days, they were phoned to ensure that the package had been received and the accelerometer was being properly worn.

They are phoning.

I thought, Why would they be phoning me?

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