The relay didn't happen because nobody picked up the phone to relay the information.
After many rings, someone in Georgia picked up the phone, and he asked to speak to Obie Parker.
So I picked up the phone and saw it was Oscar's number and thought it was him phoning me.
She needed a place to stay, so she picked up the phone and called their father again for help.
No one picked up the phone at the West Church of Christ, where Mr. Adair appears to be actively involved.
When Carson Pirie Scott, another midwestern chain, made a hostile bid for Younkers, Martin picked up the phone to call Gould.
But instead of panicking, she picked up the phone and called downstairs.
Just as he had done for Nathaniel Laor in Israel, Mr Cohen picked up the phone and rang Nicholas Pastore, New Haven's chief of police.
As she picked up the phone, she imagined federal agents at her doorstep, daring undercover missions to gather evidence and, ultimately, respect for making her company better.
She said someone at the embassy picked up the phone on Sunday and transferred her call to a recording advising callers to visit the U.S. government website.
So as I picked up the phone to chat with Dan Alban about the decision, I tried to keep in mind what my friend had said to me about preconceived notions.
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Well, if they had one-third the courage that those women -- those 2 million women had who have picked up the phone and called, not knowing what to expect, it would be a whole lot better nation.
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The man in the above scenario finally stopped filling our voicemail with raging tirades when I picked up the phone, called him out on his behavior and told him we would never answer another call from him.
So I picked up the Yellow Pages in the phone booth.
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In 1980, after he spoke out against the U.S. Olympic boycott, he picked up his phone and heard someone tell him he would be killed on his way to the finish line in Boston.
Sometimes they had prayed together over the phone, in a kind of half code in case anybody accidentally picked up the extension.
The phone rang at home the other day, and when I picked it up a voice down a crackly line asked if a "Mr Sellan" was there.
If you went to bed early Friday night and picked up your phone as you woke up Saturday morning, the app worked stunningly.
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In citing the cell phone record as corroboration, they also disregard Ms. Currie's testimony that she picked up the gifts leaving from work on her way home.
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Tesla foresaw the need for wireless transmissions in the late 1800s -- a hundred years before anyone picked up a cell phone.
Ahmed, after first making sure this man wasn't one of the bombing suspects and separately thinking he might be drunk, quickly picked up a phone and called 911.
While they are also hoping to get picked up by networks looking for an alternative to the big three of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, you can be sure that their own handset (due out in 2014) is going to be sought after from a small part of the smartphone world.
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If you'd rather trade up to an iPhone 4 rather than pocketing some cash and keeping the 3GS, you've got an option there, too: anyone who picked up a 3GS between May 7 and May 21 can preorder an iPhone 4 by June 21 and get the new phone for only the difference in cost, assuming you bring in your 3GS when you pick it up.
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