Which preposition to use with fix

on Occurrences 1145%

Il va bien?" always coming closer to me, so that I was edging back against the wall, with his hard, bright little eyes fixed on mine, and always the same sharp, jerky tone.

in Occurrences 488%

" "Bits of wreckage fixed in the sand.

for Occurrences 312%

"See what mother's fixed for you!" "M-m-m-m! fritters!" "Don't touch!" "M-m-m-mlamb stew!"

to Occurrences 182%

Below, a broad band of paler hue, like sheet lightning fixed to rigidity, wavered and rippled.

at Occurrences 152%

if you ain't fixing at one thing, you're fixing another.

with Occurrences 69%

Edith Morriston's eyes were fixed with something like fear on an object behind him.

as Occurrences 51%

The Square at Palmanova had been fixed as the next rendezvous.

between Occurrences 24%

but well curved out, the eye orbit arched and deep, a frown fixed between thick eyebrows, and few words in his firm, rather grim-looking mouth.

into Occurrences 16%

There could be little doubt that the shock had extended to her, had driven her off the reef where she had been fixed into the deep water outside, where she must have sunk immediately, and had broken her spars.

within Occurrences 12%

Leslie remained fixed within his lines; or, if he occasionally moved, [Footnote 1: Whitelock, 465, 466, 468.

of Occurrences 11%

So, without further parley, the Sergeant saluted divers of the little crowd, and, wheeling sharply, strode along beside Bellew, rather more stiff in the back, and fixed of eye than was his wont, and jingling his imaginary spurs rather more loudly than usual.

over Occurrences 10%

They brought wood and kindled a fire, and fixed over the fire a frame of wood tied to upright posts stuck into the ground.

before Occurrences 8%

When I woke my thoughts were in wild distraction, and a most peculiar condition of my skin held me fixed before the mirror.

against Occurrences 8%

The French flag was fixed against a tree, and painted on a board underneath it were the familiar words, "débit de tabac," with an arrow or two pointing round the corner, but no tobacco shop was in sight.

by Occurrences 8%

That any man, at least any man bred from his infancy to change his residence, and accustomed to different climates and to foreign nations, will fix by choice in that country where he finds the worst reception, is hardly to be imagined.

about Occurrences 7%

"I give you my word, Frank, that the next time we see him he'll have a fine story all fixed about how he was just going to jump on that Spanish revolutionary fellow, and twisting his gun out of his hand, shoot him down, and then fly away.

like Occurrences 7%

Mrs. Kaufman, should a woman like youthe finest woman in the world, and I can prove ita woman, Mrs. Kaufman, who in her heart and my heart andShould such a woman not come to Atlantic City when I got everything fixed like a stage set!"

from Occurrences 6%

It seems to me, that, if it teaches anything, it clearly teaches, that, no matter how we flatter ourselves that we are doing as we choose, and carrying out our own designs and wishes, we are all the time only fulfilling purposes that have been fixed from all eternity.

beyond Occurrences 5%

Excellent work has already been done in this direction, chiefly under the superintendence of Dr. Carpenter, by the Lightning and the Porcupine,[10] and some data of fundamental importance to the physical geography of the sea have been fixed beyond a doubt.

beneath Occurrences 4%

[Illustration] Indusium star-shaped, of a few irregular segments fixed beneath the sorus, often obscure.

near Occurrences 4%

My twelve stone had dwindled to the weight of a small fowl, and hooking my little finger into the loop of a string hung from a peg fixed near the top of the stern wall, I found myself able thus to support my weight without any sense of fatigue for a quarter of an hour or more; in fact, I felt during that time absolutely no sense of muscular weariness.

under Occurrences 4%

But is there no danger, in the course which some of your party have urged upon the Government, that certain races in the former Ottoman Empire might be fixed under a foreign yoke, for worse than that which you hold the English yoke to be?

across Occurrences 4%

In addition to these tremendous defences, booms had been fixed across the mouth of the harbor, and a three-decker, three two-deckers, and two frigates sunk in a line, forming a formidable barrier against the entry of hostile ships.

than Occurrences 3%

As for Nick, a stone could scarcely have been more fixed than his attitude.

behind Occurrences 3%

The next day prices were up, and the standards fixed behind the front soon ruled at the line itself.

Which preposition to use with  fix