Which preposition to use with ganging

of Occurrences 451%

Where did this ship and its precious gang of cutthroats come from, anyway?" "Meaning me?" "Oh, meaning you too, for all I know," he shrugged wearily.

in Occurrences 34%

She handpicked Lord Nick's gang in the hope of finding a weakness among them; some weakness upon which she could play in one of them and draw out what they were all concealing.

to Occurrences 25%

The next time ye gang to my faither, and tell a story about any one o' us, or the next time you say a word against the French lassie, as ye ca' her, do ye ken what I'll do?

at Occurrences 19%

And the group round the tent whispered that Austin had done the unheard ofhad gone off and left the night gang at three o'clock in the morning.

on Occurrences 18%

The day-gang on No. 0 was hard at it down there where lengthwise in the channel was propped a line of sluice-boxes, steadied by regularly spaced poles laid from box to bank on gravel ridge.

for Occurrences 16%

His parents were distracted; and the only conjecture which could be formed was, that as war had just broken out with America, he had been kidnapped by a press-gang for the sea-service.

from Occurrences 12%

Barbaroux brings up a Gang from Marseilles.

with Occurrences 8%

The horrible system, too, which many had gone upon, of working out their slaves in a few years, and recruiting their gangs with imported Africans, would receive its death-blow from the abolition of the trade.

under Occurrences 5%

I know him particularly, I'll fetch him to you now, Sir; he always stands for new Imployment with the rest of his Gang under St. Jago's Church-wall.

by Occurrences 4%

"I'd have the lot of them arrested, but all the good that would do would be to inform the man higher up, who'd tip off another gang by wire to wait for us over the border.

into Occurrences 4%

He found out he couldn't get his gang into town, so he slipped in by himself.

against Occurrences 4%

Hervey, you won't dare lead a gang against him now!" He drew back from her, thrust away by her half-hysteria of emotion.

out Occurrences 3%

"I feel as I used to when I was a schoolboy, and hid with the rest of the gang out in the woods and shot off charges of gunpowder in a gas-pipe bomb," grinned Barney, as he screwed one wire to a post of a battery.

like Occurrences 3%

"With a gang like ours, one must prove one's claim to be boss at the start.

without Occurrences 1%

After all this trouble to bag the whole gang without any fuss there's a chance he's given us the slip.

among Occurrences 1%

Some unruly gang among them wouldn't wait, and forced matters.

as Occurrences 1%

Yes, though I say it that shouldn't say it, we were as fine a looking gang as any in the county, starting off that morning in our red uniform,Nancy took a sight of pains with my shirt, sewing it up stout, for fear it should bother me ripping, and I with nobody to take a stitch for me all winter.

before Occurrences 1%

As the little girls and urchins had melted away before the Simpson gang, so was melting away the Simpson gang before some new and correspondingly awe-inspiring group of predatory creatures.

next Occurrences 1%

There were three men of a gang next the ship, the third one standing in the barge, served with baskets by two strings of women.

over Occurrences 1%

They live quietly and honestly upon their farms during the months of planting and harvesting, but between crops they wander in small gangs over distant parts of the country, robbing and plundering with great courage and skill.

through Occurrences 1%

In 1839 William Lowndes Yancey, who was then a planter in South Carolina, lost his whole gang through the poisoning of a spring on his place, and was thereby bankrupted.

up Occurrences 1%

Twice within their memory he had led his gang up the Hill and spread panic and terror among the Hill-dwelling young folk, who fled wildly to their homes, while their fathers and mothers hurriedly telephoned for the police.

about Occurrences 1%

Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness! Hogg.

Which preposition to use with  ganging