Now I can get my secretary to ring up and say I am unavoidably detained." "

I'm afraid your husband has been unavoidably detained, my dear.

The others waited for you, but just now went in to dinner, thinking you had been unavoidably detained.

He had been unavoidably detained and would not arrive Wednesday.

But you may notify his family that he's been unavoidably detained.

But I was unavoidably detained ha, would you?

MacKinnon, having been unavoidably detained, was to follow after, but, meeting the two brothers, he renewed the quarrel between them.

Soon after two Eddie Arnold telephoned to say that he had been unavoidably detained so could not get out to Uxbridge till about six.

I should have mentioned earlier that your Greek friends were unavoidably detained.

You can thank your lucky stars that you were unavoidably detained otherwise you'd be where I am now - on the way to prison.