Which preposition to use with forerunner

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Each deed of sin is a forerunner of personal and of social disaster.

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Usefulness of the contemplation of this subject CHAPTER II Those, who favoured the cause of the Africans previously to 1787, were so many necessary forerunners in it.

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It is the heaven's stroke and the earth's steward, the follower of sickness and the forerunner to hell

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Quite secure from observation, he and his wife watched the forerunners with the hand bags; then came the sweating trunk bearers and then the crated objects inwhat?

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Spattering raindrops whizzed in her face, ominous forerunners from the inky sky.

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Boone, when he moved into Missouri, was but a forerunner among the pioneers; many others followed him.

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" The 4th of May was bad enough, a ghastly forerunner for the 8th.

Which preposition to use with  forerunner