The sat phone seemed to be pretty clear at my end and, despite the howling winds outside, I think they all heard me.
Once I was done pinching, pulling and zooming, I simply sat the phone back down.
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Each time a new Administration arrived in Washington, Kennan seems to have sat by the phone.
When Yo-Yo Ma took his first cello lesson, there wasn't a chair short enough for him, so he sat on three phone books instead.
When triggered, the personal alarm uses phone and sat-nav technology to warn that its wearer is in danger.
He sat next to the phone table in the hall and hooked his feet on a chair rung to keep them out of the water.
By contrast, the new approach is instantaneous and practically free in terms of infrastructure - because the information the system uses comes from mobile phone and sat-nav device users directly.
My grandmother even had a little telephone table that she sat at while she made her phone calls.
We shook hands, learned a few things about each other and then she sat down, turned off her smart phone and asked if she could help finish setting up the room.
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As we sat down to write this, the cell phone began vibrating against the desk.
There, I sat down with Google's chief cell phone guy, Andy Rubin.
He is sat on a chair close to the mother, who is talking on the phone.
The phone call came late one August afternoon as my older sister Gracie and I sat out on the back porch shucking the sweet corn into the big tin buckets.
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