Example sentences of "want [prep] the telephone " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Hara 's landlady called up the stairs that he was wanted on the telephone . |
| 2 | At two o'clock he was called , and told that he was wanted on the telephone . |
| 3 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 4 | They were at the toast and marmalade stage when Mrs. Mackintosh came in to say that Sir Bryan was wanted on the telephone . |
| 5 | If this was inconvenient , Richard did not say so , although to be called to the telephone , or wanted on the telephone , as Richard put it , always seemed a kind of reproach in itself . |