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When the phone rang he answered it.
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When and phone
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.
When Zahir Shah took power in 1933 Kabul had the only 6 miles of rail in the country, few internal telegraph or phone lines and few roads.
When complete, the new cable will be able to support the equivalent of 62 million simultaneous phone calls, with the design capacity to support future internet growth and advanced applications such as video and e-commerce.
) When it is picked up, the player is rewarded with 2, 764, 331 points ; the numbers are the digits of Apogee's past phone number, which was 1-800-276-4331.
) When a landline phone is inactive or " on hook ", the circuitry at the telephone exchange detects the absence of direct current and therefore " knows " that the phone is on hook ( therefore, only AC current will go through ) with only the alerting device electrically connected to the line.
When McKinley heard that Bryan was likely to be the nominee, he called the report " rot " and hung up the phone.
When he and other friends could not get an answer on the phone or from knocking on his door, they finally broke into his Beverly Hills, California home where Lynde was found dead in his bed.
" When I was writing some of the dialogue I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does ".
( In order not to interpret +++ which may be a part of data as the escape sequence the sender stops communication for one second before and after the +++). When the modem encounters this in a stream of data, it switches from its normal mode of operation which simply sends any characters to the phone, to a command mode in which the following data is assumed to be a part of the command language.
When a phone call informs Caul that " We know that you know ; keep your mouth shut ", he believes his own apartment has been bugged and goes on a frantic search for the listening device, tearing up walls and floorboards and ultimately destroying his apartment to no avail.
When calling a telephone number in the United States, Canada or any other NANP member country from Saint kitts and Nevis, the user would dial 1 + area code + phone number.
When calling a telephone number inside Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United States, Canada or other countries participating in the NANP, the user would dial 1 + 869 + seven digit phone number.
When I think my name hasn't been in the newspapers for several weeks, well, then I ring them up and I phone them and I say: ' What about this one, then?
When and rang
When the trumpet signal for the start rang out, Antony's fleet began issuing from the straits, and the ships moved into line and remained quiet.
When the bell rang for the second season, they were able to put the Denver Nuggets away in five games.
When the Declaration was publicly read on July 8, 1776, there was a ringing of bells, and while there is no contemporary account of this particular bell ringing, most authorities agree that the Liberty Bell was among the bells that rang.
When the final bell rang at the end of the tenth round, O ' Brien was lying unconscious on the mat, his head in a resin box in his corner.
When he was born his grandfather, a cricket coach, rang his father in Scotland to announce that " It's a young cricketer!
When the Division Bell rang, Mr. Bright, who was sitting close by Gladstone, without a moment's hesitation walked straight into the Government's lobby ".
When Bernard left Boston on 1 August, the town held an impromptu celebration, decorated the Liberty Tree, and rang church bells.
When Ventura Soriano appeared for the first time in the TV show: La TV busca una estrella, that was broadcast Friday night at seven, they rang the bell.
When he left the Searchers, Curtis rang his friend, Klaus Voormann, who was in charge of the Swedish radio station for whom the band had recorded sessions in 1964.
PC West then spoke to Bamber again, who apparently complained at the length of time West was taking, and said: " When my father rang he sounded terrified.
When pulled, it produces a loud gong noise that shakes the house, to which Lurch instantly appears and responds, " You rang?
When the bell rang to signal the end of the eighth round, most observers had the Welshman ahead, but he was tiring fast and, in the ninth, suffered the first knockdown of his professional career.
When the King sorted out from the Royal Palace, the Caballerizo had the main position behind him and the major rang over the other Court Officials.
When the guesser rang in, the clock stopped for up to 3 seconds while the guesser gave their answer.
When Byrd returned to the States in 1961 armed with " Desafinado " and a cache of new Brazilian songs, the first person he rang up was jazz producer Creed Taylor.
When the 13th of April 2006, the final siren rang at the Resega, the HCL people was at the seventh heaven for seventh title.
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