The operators usually can tell the control center when a certain train last passed the tower.

We rang again after half an hour and the operator told me to stay by the phone.

It was then that the operator told the young reporter his story of hate.

The local operator told me the number had been disconnected.

The operator at her service told me she was about to go into session.

"Your party can't come to the phone," the operator told me in her computer voice.

The operator told Bill the phone was off the hook.

The operator told him the number was no longer in service.

The operator must have told her finally that they couldn't get the number.

No such information available, she said the operator told her.