Which preposition to use with buildings

of Occurrences 1144%

Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.

in Occurrences 486%

It is a corner building in Trafalgar Square, the entrance facing Whitcomb Street.

with Occurrences 188%

I have often seen him, with a bundle of papers in his pocket, entering a large building with the words "Tribune Office" over the doorand I adore him!

on Occurrences 183%

" At an upper window, in a building on the far side of the white symbol, the travellers caught a glimpse, through the slanting snow, of one of the Sisters of St. Ann shutting in the bright light with thick curtains.

at Occurrences 112%

The electric power plant was a building at the edge of Royal Waterfall, the low and persistent roar of which was scarcely drowned by the rumble of machinery.

for Occurrences 102%

If it is, we'll build a fine new building for it; if it don't seem to prosper, we'll give you back the shed.

to Occurrences 56%

You will stand back to back in the center of the block and then, at my word, you will each march to the end of the block and pass around the buildings to the lane.

by Occurrences 49%

He was armed with a small pewter squirt, with which he was trying to smear the front of that building by drawing up dirty water from the gutter.

from Occurrences 43%

Against them the enemy put 600 infantry with machine guns, and they also brought a heavy artillery fire to bear on the building from Beitunia, 4000 yards away.

near Occurrences 34%

After taking some refreshment at our lodgings, where we were very kindly received, we again went out, and were hurried along with the crowd, to a large building near the centre of the city.

as Occurrences 33%

In the same way, although it would have been absurd in Willie to rack his brain for some scheme by which to restore such a grand building as the Priory, he could yet bethink himself that the hundredth room did not come next the first, neither did the third; the one after the first was the second, and he might do something towards the existence of that.

without Occurrences 17%

" "Yet you heard the two together in this remote building without surprise?" "No, I must have felt surprise, but I didn't stop to analyse my feelings.

before Occurrences 13%

She took out her purse, but was delayed a moment in getting the fare, keeping her eye, however, on her father as he hurried from the cab to a building before which a sentry was lazily pacing.

into Occurrences 12%

What is all this boring, and probing, and sounding, and scrutinizing with the microscope, and dividing the surface of the building into registered square incheswhat is it all but an exaggeration of the application of the one principle or set of principles of search, which are based upon the one set of notions retarding human ingenuity, to which the Prefect, in the long routine of his duty, has been accustomed?

within Occurrences 10%

There are two old monasteries on the Villaba road; huge buildings within a high wall, each owning a chapel which stands apart from the dwelling-house.

across Occurrences 10%

If she meant lawyer DIBBLE, near Fulton Street, in Nassau, next door but one to the second house below, and directly opposite the building across the way, there was just one span of buckskin horses in the city that could take a carriage built expressly for ladies to that place, as naturally as though it were a stable.

than Occurrences 9%

If you would know the nature of my perplexity, then go to Washington and see the stately magnificence of our National Capitol there, and then go and describe what you have seen to one who has never seen a larger building than his village church; or go and see the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, and then tell your neighbor who has never seen anything greater than a county fair, how, what he has seen compares with the World's Fair!

like Occurrences 8%

This quarter of the city drew him, for one saw how constructive talent and imagination could be used, and he wondered whether England had new buildings like these.

behind Occurrences 6%

He and I walked away together; we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion that I was now thinking of two friends we had lost, who once lived in the buildings behind us, Beauclerk and Garrick.

throughout Occurrences 6%

A great service of thanksgiving was held in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, attended by the King and Queen, ministers of state, and an enormous congregation that joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the national anthem, while the Stars and Stripes by official order was flown for the first time in history from the tower of the Parliament buildings at Westminster and on public buildings throughout the British empire.

under Occurrences 6%

On hearing our request, he said nothing, but, motioning to us to follow, stalked across the farmyard to a small building under a great elm-tree.

in Occurrences 6%

With each change after that (except for another and briefer sojourn in Southampton Buildings in 1830), Lamb's home became less urban.

about Occurrences 5%

But let disaster unsettle the usual course of existence, Tear down the buildings about us, lay waste the crops and the garden, Banish the husband and wife from their old, familiar-grown dwelling, Drive them to wander abroad through nights and days of privation, Then, ah then!

after Occurrences 5%

"Wait till she has had time to get out and go in; then drive in, too, and help me to find my way into the building after her.

against Occurrences 5%

A flash cleft the darkness; a deep detonation thundered and echoed against the hills; the building against which Hetty leaned shook as if an earthquake had seized it, and Thursday Smith was thrown flat on his face and rolled almost to the terrified girl's feet, where he lay motionless.

Which preposition to use with  buildings