(Servicing an interrupt requires time [and space] to save at least part of the processor state, along with the time required to resume the interrupted task.)

The Master Artificer continued his interrupted task, depressing a small spot in the stone of the floor.

You must return to your interrupted task.

An icon of a man tripping on a banana skin, frozen in mid-fall, represented the snapshot of her interrupted task.

There was more evidence of interrupted tasks, but no sign of the people.

He returned to his interrupted task As Toadkiller Dog neared the monastery wall something reached out and flicked him away the way a man flicks a bug.

Trixie went back to her interrupted task of getting old Mrs. Perch, recovering from a stroke, out of her bed and into a chair.

Even Stoner grinned as he sat back at his desk and resumed his interrupted task: scanning the spectral analyses of the approaching spacecraft.

There was more evidence of interrupted tasks, but no sij!

Let's get finished with the haircuts, before you're late for your speech," and the barbers, with thoughts which will be left to the imagination, resumed their interrupted tasks.