Which preposition to use with bureau

of Occurrences 548%

"What does the information bureau of the Seven Seas know about it?" "Lost three years agospring of 1901got into ice field off the tip of the Aleutians.

in Occurrences 24%

No home to go?Relations all dead?Eaten nothing in two days?Walked all the way from the Woman's Rights Bureau in Boston?Dear me!

for Occurrences 20%

If you wish to found a library, build a hospital, establish a diet-kitchen, open a bureau for woman's work, you are obliged to argue more or less; but if you want money for neglected children, you have generally only to state the case.

at Occurrences 16%

A lady in evening dress enters, goes up to the bureau at the back of the stage, and calmly proceeds to break it open and ransack it.

with Occurrences 7%

Aunt Amy stood by the bureau with the empty box in her hand and on her face an expression so dreadful, so hopeless that, with a sob, the girl tried to crush it out against her breast.

under Occurrences 6%

In large cities like Bergen and Christiania, there is a central employment bureau under the direction of the municipal government, and twice a yearone week before New Year's day and one week before St. John's day, the 24th of Junethere is a general change of servants by those who are dissatisfied with existing conditions, and engagements are made for the ensuing six months of the year.

from Occurrences 4%

The annual receipts of the bureau from fees more than equal the expenditures, and the office now has a surplus of several millions to its credit in the Treasury.

on Occurrences 4%

" The dealer, who had just placed the bureau on the tail-board of the van, came back wiping his brow with his sleeve.

to Occurrences 3%

Our Ambassador was absent, and I was bandied about from bureau to bureau without success; so that I began at last to think that I should be necessitated to remain at Bruxelles all my life, when fortunately it occurred to Mr L. that he was intimately acquainted with the English Consul, and he kindly undertook to procure me one and succeeded.

without Occurrences 2%

Our Ambassador was absent, and I was bandied about from bureau to bureau without success; so that I began at last to think that I should be necessitated to remain at Bruxelles all my life, when fortunately it occurred to Mr L. that he was intimately acquainted with the English Consul, and he kindly undertook to procure me one and succeeded.

as Occurrences 2%

The Bertillon measurements of the victim had been cabled to Paris, and he had been instantly identified as a fellow named Morel, well-known to the police as a daring and desperate criminal; in fact, M. Lepine considered the matter so important that he cabled next day that he was sending Inspector Pigot to New York to investigate the affair further, and to confer with our bureau as to the best methods to be taken to apprehend the murderer.

before Occurrences 2%

She went to the Thursday-evening conference, discussed the revival with Deacon Snow, and locked herself into her room one night to put the lamp on the bureau before the glass and shake her soft hair down about her colorless, inexpectant face, to see if it were not turning gray.

during Occurrences 2%

Women or men in search of employment go to this bureau during the weeks named, examine the blackboard, and apply to the clerk in charge for further information.

near Occurrences 1%

He was sitting in his night-gown at a bureau near the window.

through Occurrences 1%

Tammany Hall is, I take it, the administrative bureau through which capital purchases its privileges.

by Occurrences 1%

She decided to make for the bureau by rounding the roll-top desk on the far side, thus approaching her master from behind.

between Occurrences 1%

He seems to know his whereabouts very well for he makes straight for a bureau between the bed and the window.

beside Occurrences 1%

Her new gray travelling dress was thrown over a chair, her small trunk was packed, even her gloves were laid out on the bureau beside her pocket-book.

alongside Occurrences 1%

A divan with a winding back and sleek with horsehair was drawn across a corner, a marble-topped bureau alongside.

Which preposition to use with  bureau