1.   Another bishop, who began by describing himself as a man of few words, talked until his microphone was finally turned off.

2.   After the microphones were turned off, Gore stayed to talk privately with the voters for another hour.

3.   Bush and Cheney said their comments were meant to be a private joke and they did not know the microphones were turned on.

4.   But almost no one could hear him because the microphones were turned off.

5.   From Aristophanes to Anne Rice, he has compiled the kind of utterances that other people are overheard saying when they thought a microphone was turned off.

6.   I think of something to talk about and turn the microphone on.

7.   Ms. Uemura turned her microphone back on.

8.   Presiding judge Richard May interrupted Milosevic and ordered his microphone turned off as he kept on trying to speak over the judge.

9.   Then she turned the microphone over to him.

10.   Usually, the microphone is turned on only when the referee is announcing a penalty, ruling or key substitution.