Which preposition to use with receivers

of Occurrences 97%

It is interesting to note that the receiver of this early letter has stated that its schoolboy writer had "more than usual flow of spirits, held his head more erect than lads ordinarily do," and that "there was a general smartness about him."

in Occurrences 16%

After a morning of up-stairs and down-stairs and in and out of chambers, Mrs. Kaufman, enveloped in a long-sleeved apron still angular with starch, hung up the telephone receiver in the hall just beneath the staircase and entered her bedroom, sitting down rather heavily beside the open shelf of her desk.

at Occurrences 12%

It was a proud day for the young Italian when his receiver at Dover recorded the first wireless message sent across the British Channel from Boulogne in 1899just the letters V M and three or four words in the Morse alphabet of dots and dashes.

with Occurrences 12%

" "Do the pirates afflict you much in the north?" asked the Receiver with keen interest.

to Occurrences 11%

" She held the receiver to her ear and listened.

on Occurrences 6%

Sometimes he'd pull it very fast, just like you do with the receiver on the telephone when you're good and mad because Central don't answer.

from Occurrences 5%

Maxime full of a secret apprehension had listened from a distance; he ran and caught the receiver from his father's hand, as Clerambault let it drop with a despairing gesture.

for Occurrences 5%

"He calls it the receiver for his new butterflies, but looks more like a kodak to me," Andy went on.

out Occurrences 2%

Where is all this noise?" "Here!Oh!" piped the B.M. as a crump shook the receiver out of his hand.

without Occurrences 2%

" Norgate set down the receiver without listening to the tangle of exclamations from the other end, and walked quickly out of the shop.

into Occurrences 2%

Flushed, hot and flurried, the G.S.O.3 thrust the receiver into the hands of the G.S.O.2, who handed it on to the General, who dropped it.

off Occurrences 2%

LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY What Happens When You Talk into a Telephone Receiver In Omaha, Nebraska, half-way across the continent and about forty hours from Boston by fast train, a man sits comfortably in his office chair and, with no more exertion than is required to lift a portable receiver off his desk, talks every day to his representative in the chief New England city.

like Occurrences 1%

It is born with a nervous system made up of an infinite number of fine fibers reaching all parts of the body, with fixed stations or receivers like the central stations of a telephone system, and with a grand central exchange in the brain.

before Occurrences 1%

It is said that a very ingenious American, named Drawbaugh, had anticipated all the inventors of every part of the telephone system; that he had invented a receiver before Bell; that he had invented the compressed carbon arrangement before Edison; that he had invented the microphone before our friend Professor Hughes; and that, in fact, he had done everything on the face of the earth to establish the claims set forth.

among Occurrences 1%

There were pickpockets, sneak thieves, confidence men, burglars, and receivers among the occupants of the gallery, and many of them had brought with them the ladies who assisted them professionally or presided over their homes when they were not in gaol.

Which preposition to use with  receivers