Which preposition to use with demolishes

in Occurrences 19%

The chariot of Jupiter was demolished in the Roman hippodrome, and for many days a flash would rise over the sea toward Greece and dart up into the firmament.

with Occurrences 7%

to raise with one hand and demolish with the other?

at Occurrences 4%

It was as a value of disproof that his worth meanwhile so rapidly grew: the good sight of him, the good sound and sense of him, such as they were, demolished at a stroke so blessedly much of the horrid inconvenience of the past that she thought of him; she clutched at him, for a general saving use, an application as sanative, as redemptive as some universal healing wash, precious even to the point of perjury if perjury should be required.

about Occurrences 3%

The Schweizer palace became later on the Hôtel de Russie and was demolished about 1890, the Imperial Post Office having been erected in its place.

during Occurrences 2%

[*] And yet, in course of time, there grew up upon these forbidding rocks, in the midst of this desert, a little town that obtained a wide celebrity, and was even fortified, as the five ruinous gateways, with towers along the line of the single street, prove even now, notwithstanding the deplorable recklessness with which the structures of the ancient burg have been degraded or demolished during the last half-century.

over Occurrences 1%

The second daughter lived in disgrace, with a man equally miserable, till the house was demolished over their heads.

without Occurrences 1%

They have been demolished without a word of protest.

as Occurrences 1%

I have heard that it was demolished as a disgrace to Scotland somewhere about 1810 or 1812.

before Occurrences 1%

At the proper moment of subsiding feeling, Mr. Moffat again raised his voice: "Gentlemen of the jury, you have seen point after point of the prosecution's case demolished before your eyes by testimony which no one has had the temerity to attempt to controvert.

from Occurrences 1%

Alba, from which they themselves derived their origin, they demolished from her foundations, that there might remain no trace of their rise and extraction, much less can I believe they will spare Capua, towards which they bear a more rancorous hatred than towards Carthage.

on Occurrences 1%

And already the fortifications were being demolished on every side, when the consul, after having delayed a little while for the purpose of testing the feelings of the soldiers, although all from every quarter, and before all the debtors, were crying out for him to give the signal, at length, when their great eagerness became unmistakable, gave the signal for sallying forth, and let out the soldiery impatient for the fight.

Which preposition to use with  demolishes