Which preposition to use with behave

like Occurrences 257%

"Behave like men," she yelled, "not like fools.

with Occurrences 203%

We shall get there before it's closed.' CHAPTER II Opera Glasses Whether to behave with some coolness to Mitchell, and be stand-offish, as though it had been all his fault, or to be lavishly apologetic, was the question.

in Occurrences 177%

Day succeeded day, and our wishes dragged along with them, kept alive by torturing anxiety, the full bitterness whereof each of us experienced; although the one manifested this to the other in disguised language, and the other showed herself over-discreet to an excessive degree; all of which you who know how ladies who are beloved behave in such circumstances will easily understand.

to Occurrences 102%

My keeper, whose name was Sing Fou, and who, from a long exercise of magisterial authority, was rough and dictatorial, behaved to me somewhat harshly at first; but my patient submission so won his confidence and good will, that I soon became a great favourite; was regarded more as one of his family than as a prisoner, and was allowed by him every indulgence consistent with my safe custody.

as Occurrences 38%

He has behaved as an enemy, and has been treated as such.

towards Occurrences 31%

But Statira was proof against all the wheedling and flattery of the parson's wife, behaving towards her always with the same cool civility, and with great self-control,using none of the frequent opportunities afforded her to make some taunt, or fling, or reproachful allusion to Mrs. Jaynes's former conduct.

toward Occurrences 17%

It seemed too Peavey and perverse a thing that she should, finding our truce honorably observed by myself, behave toward me as if with a cold design to bring me down in disgraceas a proof of her superior powers and my own wretched weakness.

on Occurrences 12%

Emma, soon afterward, married a respectable man, and old Monette behaved on the occasion much more liberally than was expected.

under Occurrences 12%

The kind of experience with which morality is concerned is experience of human life in various circumstances, and the way people behave under those circumstances.

at Occurrences 12%

He did not know how to behave at tea-parties, and, sitting at a little distance from us, he had been aiming an imaginary gun at every fat robin that mined the lawn for sustenance.

for Occurrences 4%

There had been very certainly an enjoyment all the while in reflecting how nobly Rudolph Musgrave was behaving for the sake of "the only woman he had ever loved."

during Occurrences 3%

My dear mamma will have learned by the courier, who started yesterday, how well the king behaved during the last moments of my brother's visit.

from Occurrences 2%

To me she behaved from the first with a sort of sullen friendliness.

after Occurrences 2%

The few other people present behaved after the ordinary fashion; and when we had finished, Frank and Josephine, Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, Laura Lane and I, all took the train for Dartford.

among Occurrences 2%

" "In any case," replied Ottilie, "it would not be a bad plan, if in the next edition of the book of good manners, after the chapters which tell us how we ought to eat and drink in company, a good circumstantial chapter were inserted, telling how to behave among works of art and in museums.

before Occurrences 2%

They both kept their Countenances, and after I had sat half an Hour meditating how to behave before such profound Casuists, I rose up and took my Leave.

about Occurrences 2%

"Have you told," she demanded of her husband, "how oddly your memory behaved about the subject of the picture, too?

than Occurrences 1%

Many armies I have seen, but never one better behaved than the British army in France and Flanders in its respect for property and the rights of the population.

through Occurrences 1%

In point of fact, your nephew behaved through the whole of that matter as well as a man could do.

of Occurrences 1%

The gaming-table is a notorious leveler of distinctions, and the worst-behaved of the guests were too frequently the king's own brothers; they were rude, overbearing, and ill-tempered.

by Occurrences 1%

I took to that girl, for poor Wyse's sake; and I'll behave by her to the last as he would wish; and he who insults her, insults me.

beyond Occurrences 1%

When he dreads beyond all reason, he will behave beyond all reason.

beneath Occurrences 1%

The boat behaved beneath their hands like a live creature: she bounded so that you almost saw the light under her; her whole steal lifted itself slowly out of the water, caught the back of a roller and rode over upon the next; the very things that came rushing in with their white rage to devour her bent their necks and bore her up like a bubble.

unto Occurrences 1%

All of them are conciliated and honoured and gratified by Dhritarashtra's son who behaveth unto them as one should behave unto his preceptor.

against Occurrences 1%

The latter sort are often compelled by their very disasters and in consideration of their own need of profit to behave against their will in an irregular way: the others voluntarily abandon self-control even if to do so is contrary to their own interests.

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