Which preposition to use with benches

in Occurrences 150%

We found a bench in the shade, and sat there very happy, W. smoking and wondering what the next turn of the wheel would bring us.

of Occurrences 143%

Around the campfire were benches of hewn slabs, and a table of the same material.

on Occurrences 54%

" They rested on a bench on one of those small triangles of breathing space which the city ekes out now and then; mill ends of land parcels.

at Occurrences 53%

Nicholas and all the rest who shared the bench at night, and the fire in the morning, seemed desperately depressed and glum.

under Occurrences 48%

After the syllabub there was the garden to see, and a most beautiful garden it was;long and narrow, a straight gravel walk down the middle of it, at the end of the gravel walk there was a green arbour with a bench under it.

with Occurrences 46%

He would sit on the bench with the little children and listen to Mary tell about the Saviour who loves all people.

by Occurrences 45%

And then, when the man told her she was indeed too late, all strength and energy left her, and she sank sobbing on the wooden bench by the door.

beside Occurrences 33%

He lifted her up on the bench beside him and gave her a handful of shavings to play with.

for Occurrences 33%

In front of the hut a space has been cleared and levelled, flanked on one side by mats for the Bhandari musicians, singers, drummers and cymbal-players, and on the other by four or five chairs and a few wooden benches for the initiates in the mysteries; and to the stems of several neighbouring trees lamps have been affixed about five feet from the ground, which cast weird shadows across the threshold of the goddess's home.

near Occurrences 24%

He was at work at a carpenter's bench near the mill.

to Occurrences 18%

From the top of the benches to the ceiling the walls are glass to ensure daylight in every corner, and by night the system of indirect lighting gives such perfectly diffused light that not a heavy shadow falls anywhere.

before Occurrences 17%

The Sheriff sat within, feasting merrily of the best the place afforded, and the Sheriff's men sat upon the bench before the door, quaffing ale, or lay beneath the shade of the broad-spreading oak trees, talking and jesting and laughing.

outside Occurrences 16%

"Must of been goin' some to-day," meditated the man who was once more on his bench outside the door.

behind Occurrences 13%

She entered the patio with two young tourists, whom she sent off, and beckoned Cartwright to a bench behind a palm.

beneath Occurrences 12%

'Mother,' said a little child of four or five years of age, one evening when the summer air was warm, and the skies were bright above, as she sat beside her mother, on a bench beneath the spreading branches of the tall old elms in front of the house; 'mother, what makes the stars come out, only after the dark has come down, and why don't the moon go up into the sky like the sun in the day time?'

from Occurrences 8%

[The Head rises upon a twisted Post, on a Bench from under the Stage.

around Occurrences 7%

After that"he turned to Dick and Sam"well, your blood will be on your own heads if you disturb this fence or the benches around the flagstaff.

along Occurrences 6%

From early dawn all the chairs and benches along the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne are crowded with people waiting patiently for hours to see the show.

against Occurrences 6%

" Johnnie sat on the bench against the wall where newcomers applying for positions were placed.

as Occurrences 6%

The Bench as before.

without Occurrences 5%

Marcel was aware that in the episcopal Palace the village Curés are treated with less regard than the dogs in the back-yard; therefore he took his own part, and he had just sat down on a bench without saying a word, deliberating with himself whether be ought to wait or to go away, when a little priest with a busy and important air, with spectacles on his nose and a pen behind his ear, quickly crossed the anteroom.

above Occurrences 5%

They respected her wishes and built her into the foundations; and since then women who suffer from the back-ache have only to come and sit on the bench above the well to be cured.

between Occurrences 3%

And what I saw convinced me that I should be a lot easier in my mind with a stout rustic bench between us.

across Occurrences 2%

Oliver sat on a wooden bench across the table from Richard.

out Occurrences 2%

So crowded is the school that in fine weather the children sit on benches out of doors.

Which preposition to use with  benches