Which preposition to use with doings

of Occurrences 466%

At the very commencement of the summer term it was plain to everybody that something was wrong with the dux; he seemed to take no interest in the doings of his companions in the playground, and only once roused himself sufficiently to bang Cross with a leg-guard for bowling awful wides at cricket.

in Occurrences 69%

Must have been lively doings in Seal-Town.

at Occurrences 34%

" Dave rambled on, for some time now, with of the athletic doings at the Naval Academy.

for Occurrences 24%

"Now, Guy of Gisbourne," cried he, "if what thou tellest me is true, it will be the best day's doings for thee that ever thou hast done in all thy life.

with Occurrences 19%

He seemed, somehow, to survey Rudolph Musgrave and all his doings with complete and unconcerned aloofness.

to Occurrences 18%

"Why, Hanna, what you been doin' to yourself?" Her hand flew to a new and elaborately piled coiffure, a half-fringe of curling-iron, little fluffed out tendrils escaping down her neck.

on Occurrences 18%

We recovered many square miles of the robbed territory of France40 villages one day, 100 villages another; while the condition in which the Germans had left both the recovered territory and its inhabitants has steeled once more the determination of the nations at war with Germany to put an end to "this particular form of ill-doing on the part of an uncivilised race.

as Occurrences 10%

All children want to know certain things about people who lived before them, not so much their great doings as their smaller ones; they want to know what these people were like, what they worked at, and learnt, how they travelled, what they bought and sold: and there is undoubtedly a primitive strain in all children that comes out in their love of building shelters, playing at savages, and making things out of natural material.

from Occurrences 7%

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

without Occurrences 5%

This philosophy was largely responsible for the ordering of his own life, for his doing without possessions, for the most part without friends, for his keeping the brake set so tightly upon his sex impulses.

of Occurrences 5%

Sayings and Doings of Hindoos.

by Occurrences 4%

Bad doings by Old Spitfire.

than Occurrences 3%

The thief making a vow to heaven of full restitution and whispering some reservations, expecting to cheat Omniscience by an "aside," is hardly more ludicrous than the many ladies and gentlemen who have more belief, and expect others to have it, in their own statement about their habitual doings than in the contradictory fact which is patent in the daylight.

about Occurrences 2%

Benny, who always had a thought of his own, said quietly: "What are you doin' about Gratton?

among Occurrences 2%

"Why should we speak of this little matter? Prythee, let us keep this day's doings among ourselves.

during Occurrences 2%

We hear more, perhaps, of our Lord's saying and doings during this week, up to the very moment before he was betrayed to death, than we do of the whole three years of his public life.

under Occurrences 2%

The scandal caused by Kidd's piratical doings under a commission from the Crown, the political use made of it in Parliament, and the legend of a vast hoard of buried treasure, have conferred on him a celebrity not justified by his exploits.

within Occurrences 2%

Aha! methinks shall be great doings within the greenwood anon!

AT Occurrences 2%

THE DOINGS AT WEST INCH X. THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW XI.

like Occurrences 1%

Tear in pieces my wrong-doings like a garment!

after Occurrences 1%

But we have no direct information concerning his doings after the return to Florence at the end of April 1532.

up Occurrences 1%

'By all accounts there have been some black doings up yonder.

around Occurrences 1%

Yes ma'am there was lots of doings around Rockport.

across Occurrences 1%

It has become evident that it is compatible neither with the dignity nor with the self-preservation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy to view any longer idly the doings across the border through which the safety and the integrity of the Monarchy are permanently threatened.

ob Occurrences 1%

Why doan' you pump de bellers from de inside ob yo' nose?" "Ain't I been," the child replied to her, "a-doin' ob jes'

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