Which preposition to use with earned

in Occurrences 61%

Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner in the National League.

for Occurrences 47%

| | | | There is hardly a township in the United States, but a | | person can, in a day or two, earn for himself a family | | machine, actually worth the price asked for itthe same as | | sold at, when purchased of Wilcox & Gibbs, the manufactures.

from Occurrences 28%

Underneath this picture stands the favourite horse of William II., one which carried him through numerous engagements, and earned from his Royal master a gratitude and affection that caused him to wish for his preservation in a position where he would constantly be reminded of him.

by Occurrences 22%

Slim-etched, and that slimness enhanced by a conscious kind of collapse beneath the blue-silk girdle that reached up half-way to her throat, hers were those proportions which strong women, eschewing the sweet-meat, would earn by the sweat of the Turkish bath.

on Occurrences 16%

Our conversations were earned on in English, which he spoke with facility and correctness We soon found ourselves so much to each other's taste, that there was seldom an evening that I did not make him a visit, and pass an hour or two in his company "I learned from him that he was born and bred at Benares, in Hindostan, that he had been intended for the priesthood, and had been well instructed in the literature of the east

at Occurrences 11%

These papal dispensations were, however, only earned at the price of prayers and alms, and this was the origin of the troncs pour le beurre, that is, "alms-box for butter," which are still to be seen in some of the Flemish churches.

during Occurrences 8%

And yet he had effected the change without leaving the penurious little Irish townlet of Dunsloe, which could have been bought outright for a quarter of the sum which he had earned during the single day that he was within its walls.

with Occurrences 7%

"She's been stinting me for twenty-nine years and saving the moneymy money!money that I 'ave earned with the sweat of my brow.

between Occurrences 6%

My wife ran it four years, and earned between | | $700 and $800, besides doing her housework.

as Occurrences 6%

"Well, you've earned as fair title to the name of Duchemin as I ever did to that of Wertheimer.

about Occurrences 4%

"For several months in the year the fur-sewers have either no work, or earn about 3s. or 4s.

of Occurrences 3%

We tell the chronicle of parentage, birth, birthplace, schooling, schoolmates, earning of money, marriage, publication of books, celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born; and it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the "Modern Plutarch," and read any other life there, it would have fitted the poems as well.

under Occurrences 3%

A margin of unemployed labour means a bare subsistence wage for low- skilled labour, and it means this wage earned under industrial conditions, such as we find under the "sweating system."

through Occurrences 3%

Cairns was first to see, for he had been told, and he brought to the meeting all the fresh inspirations of his maturity, and they rested upon the solid values earned through a life of hard-held decency.

into Occurrences 2%

But the Psalmist knew that that was God's doing; and therefore he would not fear, though the earth was moved, and though the hills were earned into the very midst of the sea.

toward Occurrences 1%

He hired himself out to some of the wealthy plantation owners and applied what he earned toward the payment for his freedom.

after Occurrences 1%

You cannot feel that the money you have received is fairly yours, and I can hardly think you would wish to become rich by taking from me all that I have earned after so many hardships.

before Occurrences 1%

The soldier's pay, received or promised, exceeds in amount per month anything they ever earned before per year, and the war they wage is one that enlists all their proud and ferocious instincts.

without Occurrences 1%

He was distinguished among many as a skilful and valiant climber; nor had his laurels been earned without perils and wounds.

among Occurrences 1%

Good trapper he is, but the fame he has earned among adventurers of his class is not from fur-getting.

over Occurrences 1%

How long is it?only two centuries since a vessel earned over the ocean the beginning of the great North American nation.

per Occurrences 1%

They knew the sum which each earned per week; how much they turned in to help swell the family coffers and how much they were allowed to keep for their own use.

Which preposition to use with  earned