After a while the phone went dead and then, a few hours later, began to ring, which sent Paul into a frenzy.
Over the past ten years the likelihood of my questions resulting in only dead air over the phone line has gone down considerably.
On Dec. 26, Te'o notified Notre Dame officials that he had received a call from his supposedly dead girlfriend's phone three weeks earlier.
Speaking of cell phones, airports are huge facilities that, I've found, often have cell phone "dead zones" -- even for major carriers like Verizon.
But, police say, there was no activity on Kopetsky's cell phone after she walked out of school, indicating that the battery went dead or was removed from the phone.
She went on to say that she used them often, but mostly when her cell phone battery was dead.
He began to hear imaginary phone calls from the dead.
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The prosecution allege Mr Taft recruited the group of men, who made phone calls threatening to shoot dead members of Mr Sherratt's family and his friends.
The News of the World is dead, but it seems unlikely that phone hacking, bribery and other illegal news-gathering techniques were confined to that one paper.
This is reminiscent of all the dutiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren lingering over deathbeds with digital recorders, or else manically pursuing their ancestors through the online genealogy sites at three in the morning, so very eager to reconstitute the lives and thoughts of dead and soon-to-be-dead men, though they may regularly screen the phone calls of their own mothers.
At least three people are confirmed dead but a local newspaper journalist told the BBC by phone the rival gangs had removed their fallen comrades from the streets.
It has also been used to offer help and collate data on the dead, the injured and the missing - at a time when phone lines were often jammed.
She walked trembling to the phone and found that he had told the truth: it was dead.
Chapin, who lives in San Diego, answered his cell phone, but when this writer identified himself, the line suddenly went dead and a follow-up call went into a voice mail.
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Think about The Walking Dead, popularly agreed to be the biggest emotional rollercoaster in gaming this year and capable of running on a phone.
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