Which preposition to use with drilled

in Occurrences 103%

" To obtain uniform results practice had to come before actual performance, and many weary hours were spent over drill in reading, drill in number, drill in handwork, drill in needlework.

for Occurrences 38%

I have been trying to teach you provincials the rudiments of drill for the past fortnight, without success.

with Occurrences 30%

They had served as firemen; they had mastered many of the electrical details of a battleship; they had received instruction and had "stood trick" by the engines; there had been some drill with the smaller, rapid-fire guns, and finally, they had learned at least the rudiments of "wig-wagging," as signaling by means of signal flags is termed.

into Occurrences 29%

"Wewe're waiting for another party," said Miss Slayback, her hands still rigidly over the table-sides and her glance like a steady drill into Mr. Batch's own.

of Occurrences 20%

"'Father and mother and the ancestors before them have done much to bequeath those mental qualities to us, but that which scrubs them into us, the clinch which makes them actually ours and keeps them ours, and adds to them as the years go by,that depends on our own plod in the rut, our drill of habit, in a word our 'drudgery.'

on Occurrences 18%

Company K was drilling on the wide plateau between the camp and the highway when the ambulance bearing the afflicted officer came slowly over the road worn through the greensward.

at Occurrences 15%

At Northfield, Massachusetts, is a college at which men are taught and trained, just as men are drilled at a Tonsorial College, in every phase of this pleasing episcopopography.

to Occurrences 8%

A body of Indians were also drilled in the service of the British, so far as Indians can be drilled to regular warfare.

through Occurrences 6%

If you drill through the steel doors you destroy their security.

from Occurrences 5%

He has now tied himself apprentice to the trade of minting, and must weekly perform his task, or (beside the loss which accrues to himself) he disappoints a number of no small fools, whose discourse, discipline, and discretion is drilled from his state-service.

under Occurrences 3%

Long before this I had secured my uniform and accoutrements,which my three shillings a day were far from paying for,and was kept busy superintending the storage of wagons or drilling under Captain Adam Stephen, in whose company I was, at Alexandria.

as Occurrences 3%

On a certain day during the last week in Maythe exact date I have forgottenwe were drilling as usual, with Sergeant Corney finding more fault than ever, when we frightened the famous Thayendanega away from an attack on the settlement, although, as I have said, we knew nothing about it until many months afterward.

along Occurrences 2%

Blackton had evidently been carefully drilled along the line of a certain scheme which Peggy had formed, for in spite of a negative nod from her, which signified that he was to wait a while, he pulled out his watch, and said: "It isn't at all surprising if you people have forgotten that to-morrow is Sunday.

like Occurrences 2%

No wonder that he hath done his part so readily; for, while the others have been reading in books, or drilling like so many awkward recruits under the school-master, Antoine hath had little more to perform than to dip into the skin at his elbow.

during Occurrences 2%

In 1860 he was chosen commander of the Wide-Awakes, a marching-club, devoted to the promotion of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln, and many of the men he so patiently drilled during that exciting campaign became officers in the volunteer service in that great struggle that soon followed.

without Occurrences 1%

Experience has proven to me, beyond a doubt, that a chorus can be better drilled without a baton than with it, though it costs more labor and patience to obtain the result.

after Occurrences 1%

When I was a kid and spent my holidays at Brinkley, we used to have fire drills after closing time, and many is the night I've had it jerk me out of the dreamless like the Last Trump.

against Occurrences 1%

"Him an' his everlastin' 'Cut the Time!'" "I'm just about fed up with him," said Gunner Donovan bitterly, "and I'd like to know where's all the sense doing this drill against a stop-watch.

between Occurrences 1%

King would sit and hold the drill between his feet, while Quirk would strike with a heavy sledge.

by Occurrences 1%

The Colonel knew his battalion-drill by heart and backwards.

near Occurrences 1%

The speaker let her eyes wander to an approaching orderly, and a lieutenant took the chance to mention that early drill near Carrollton, which the General had viewed from the Callenders' equipage.

than Occurrences 1%

Then one day Buckner Gowdy, who had also enlisted, took charge of a squad of men and in ten minutes showed that he knew more about drill than any one else in the county.

throughout Occurrences 1%

For a time, there was nothing but drills throughout the camp, then gradually came evolutions of every kind.

up Occurrences 1%

He dragged the drill up to the face but it was too heavy for him to handle, and the stroke he was able to make with it was wholly without effect.

across Occurrences 1%

All that afternoon, though the wind blew hot in his face, Casey drilled across the desert, meeting never a living thing, overtaking none.

Which preposition to use with  drilled