Which preposition to use with chap

in Occurrences 60%

She doesn't mind seeing chaps in their night-shirts when they're ill, we all know that; and once or twice when for some reason or other she told us on the quiet that there mustn't be any disturbance that evening, no one ever went crusading Acton would have licked them if they had.

with Occurrences 36%

I didn't notice when you came in.' 'Over there, opposite; the left-hand corner.' 'Good-looking chap with the light moustachenext to Myra Mooney?' 'That's it,' she said.

like Occurrences 29%

I don't see how it's possible for the Philistines to show up well when they've got a chap like him bossing the show.

at Occurrences 21%

He wrote to the chaps at school about his topboots, and his feats across country.

from Occurrences 20%

"You mark my word," said Diggory, "as soon as the prefects have gone down to supper those chaps from over the way'll come across and pay us out for throwing that soap.

of Occurrences 17%

You possibly by this time may have explored all Italy, and toppled, unawares, into Etna, while you went too near those rotten-jawed, gap-toothed, old worn-out chaps of hell,while I am meditating a quiescent letter to the honest postmaster at Toulouse.

as Occurrences 12%

"Nay, there ye hev me fast;but what brings ye here this mornin'?" said the old woman, resting the end of her ladle on the little counter; "I never trouble sic like chaps as ye."

on Occurrences 11%

o' chaps on my back, I aimed to make it pay.

for Occurrences 9%

"Look here, we want a chap for the third eleven next seasona fellow who can throw straight.

to Occurrences 8%

* "By-the-by, Colonel," said the Boy, just as he was turning in that night, "IaI've asked that Jesuit chap to the House-Warming.

about Occurrences 3%

I'm going to hire Esau Whalley to milk and do the chores, and send you small chaps about your business.

after Occurrences 3%

Fact of the matter is, I've got my eye on a young lady; there's another chap after 'er too, and if she thought I'd got a rich uncle it might make all the difference.

by Occurrences 2%

"I know that chap by sight," he said.

aboard Occurrences 2%

Andrew and Sam, you cast off the pirate's graplings; an' then you jumpthen we'll walk into them three chaps aboard the clipper.

before Occurrences 2%

I must rush home and see the poor chap before dinner.

over Occurrences 2%

"There's a chap over Barnsley way who fancies himself a bit.

than Occurrences 2%

I would rather hang ten such chaps than one man like the Frenchman.

up Occurrences 2%

That chap up to the nor'ard there, draws something like a hundred fathoms, if he draws an inch.

against Occurrences 1%

There was something overpowering in this brown-haired chap against the background of his negligible little shop, his whole capital in his few pianos.

below Occurrences 1%

Fancy throwing money away like that, Bill: seems a sin, don't it?" Bill didn't answer 'im, and that afternoon the other chaps below being asleep we searched 'is bunk through and through without any luck, and at last Bill sat down and swore 'e must ha' got it about 'im.

ez Occurrences 1%

"Ef Rosey," he continued, "hez read in v'yages and tracks in Eyetalian and French countries of such chaps ez you and kalkilates you're the right kind to tie to, mebbee it mout hev done if you'd been livin' over thar in a pallis, but somehow it don't jibe in over here and agree with a shipand that ship lying comf'able ashore in San Francisco.

down Occurrences 1%

There's a couple o' chaps down 'ere

inside Occurrences 1%

"All you've got to do, Harry, is to kill the chap inside it before he kills you!

into Occurrences 1%

I never took it serious myself, 'cause I know how a triflin' thing 'll sometimes turn a level-headed little chap into a drizzlin' ejiot.

among Occurrences 1%

They were Gordon Highlanders, and I found a lot of chaps among them frae far awa' Aberdeen.

Which preposition to use with  chap