Which preposition to use with buses

to Occurrences 23%

"She took the last bus to Edentown.

in Occurrences 12%

After much action and hand waving, I explained that I did not know Tamil, that I was from Goa and it was the first time I was travelling in a bus in Chennai.

from Occurrences 9%

I travelled by an overnight bus from Goa to Bangalore, rested briefly during the day at Hartman's place and caught the night bus again at Bangalore bus station arriving at Pondicherry at 4 a.m. There a cycle rickshaw fellow managed to cheat me of Rs.40 by promising to take me to Auroville but instead depositing me at Aurobindo Ashram which was more or less next door to the bus stop.

at Occurrences 8%

"Here's the girl who got us here!" said Betty to Bob, when the group of cadets met their bus at the athletic field where several cars were drawn up on the sidelines.

with Occurrences 7%

I rode down Fifth Avenue on one of them high-topped buses with seats on.

for Occurrences 6%

I just said kind of sober like, "Can I take your grip over to the bus for you, Mr. Ellsworth?" Oh, boy, you ought to have seen him.

on Occurrences 4%

Nothing going on here except the passing now and then of a long line of Paris street busses on the way to the front.

of Occurrences 3%

The villain demanded a double rate, and, while we were haggling, a bus of the Oriente drew in sight and I caught it as it was spinning up Calle San Fernando.

by Occurrences 2%

Every day, except Sundays, for the next 15 days I followed the same routine which was: wake up at 6 a.m or so, eat a hot breakfast of idlis, sambar, dosas, vadas or whatever was cooked for breakfast, carry a hot packed lunch which Aunty Sagu prepared for me and catch a bus by 7 a.m. from Ashok Pillar to Panagal where I had to change buses and get on one going to New College.

opposite Occurrences 1%

A murder in the Strand to that tobacconist was less than the breakdown of a motor bus opposite Putney Station; and a change of government less than a change of programme at the Putney Empire.

out Occurrences 1%

Think of an inky night, the Germans close at hand, and every half-hour or so a desperate struggle to shoulder a heavily loaded London bus out of a ditch, and you may have some faint idea of the nightmare we passed through.

over Occurrences 1%

Frozen with horror, helpless in the fell clutch of circumstance, he sat inert and beheld himself guide the new bus over the sidewalk and through the neat white picket fence of the Dodwell place.

up Occurrences 1%

They took the 'bus up the Avenue....

about Occurrences 1%

In the morning my cousin Reggie took me on his scooter to the bus station where we saw a bus about to depart for Goa.

without Occurrences 1%

A few of the taxi- cabs have come back; but all the auto-buses without exception are away behind the front.

above Occurrences 1%

Also, when our big guns get to work, they will not need to fire blindly, as in the days of our youth, but will be directed by one of our R.F.C. lads, humming about in his little bus above the target, perhaps fifteen miles from the gun.

as Occurrences 1%

We filled the top of this bus as full as it would hold, and put everything else inside.

behind Occurrences 1%

"Ada, my dear love!" cried a girl from the bus behind the one in which Betty and her friends had ridden.

between Occurrences 1%

A line of swaying men, steaming from the deluge, intervened in every 'bus between two rows of seated women, also steaming.

during Occurrences 1%

These were civilian volunteers, they had not even trenches to shelter them, and it took a rather unforeseen and difficult sort of courage to leave that fairly safe masonry building and sit smiling and helpful on top of a motor-bus during a wait of half an hour or so, any second of which might be one's last.

en Occurrences 1%

We left them behind in skilled hands, and the others we re-embarked on our buses en route for Bruges and Ostend.

into Occurrences 1%

He rode the city bus into Waikiki, the Filson bag on his lap, and rented a room for a week on Kuhio Avenuea concrete block room with a four foot lanai, a tiny refrigerator, and a hot plate.

like Occurrences 1%

I say, old man, don't you race after my bus like thisyou'll only tire your 'orse.

Which preposition to use with  buses