Which preposition to use with gratings

of Occurrences 50%

At five minutes past one she was at the ticket-office grating of a train-terminal that was more ornate than a rajah's dream.

in Occurrences 17%

On one occasion he tore down the window gratings in a room of the school-house, with the remark that they darkened the hall; on another he is reported to have refused a dinner invitation from the master, with the impertinent remark that he would never think of asking him in return to dine at Newstead.

at Occurrences 6%

This is sometimes accomplished by means of hollow walls with gratings at the bottom outside, for the exit of bad air, which is carried down through the hollow walls and discharged at the bottom, while, for the admission of fresh air, the reverse takes place: the fresh by this means gets diffused and heated before it is discharged into the stable. 2207.

to Occurrences 5%

The bronze and iron ventilation gratings to the doors gave us glimpses of the coast through fretwork; the rich inlaying of woods surrounded us.

from Occurrences 4%

Merry reached the grating from which he had been hurled, and then he ran up the other ladder.

over Occurrences 3%

On one street is the bazaar of a modiste en robes et chapeaux and other humble shops; on the other, the immense batten doors with gratings over the lintels, barred and bolted with masses of cobwebbed iron, like the door of a donjon, are overhung by a creaking sign (left by the sheriff), on which is faintly discernible the mention of wines and liquors.

on Occurrences 3%

The lower-deck ports lay completely under water, and several times the muzzles of the main-deck guns were plunged into the sea; so that the ends of the grating on which the remains of poor "Dolly" were laid, once or twice nearly touched the tops of the waves, as they foamed and hissed past.

under Occurrences 2%

There are gratings under the high altar, by looking into which, I could see a dark, lonely chamber below, where one or two feeble lamps showed a circle of praying-places.

for Occurrences 2%

While they waited they examined the iron grating for the door opening, but found none.

into Occurrences 2%

The editors might do their bestand succeed surprisinglyin looking like ordinary mortals, you might even know the leader-writers, and, with the very public, gaze through gratings into the subterranean printing-rooms,the mystery none the less remained.

by Occurrences 1%

He emerged, after a horrible passage through a grating by the bank of the river, only to find there the implacable Javert!

beside Occurrences 1%

"Still," said my father, kneeling on the grating beside me, "let us load them.

beneath Occurrences 1%

At this age, when the young girl is not formed, when the woman cannot feel those emotions which reveal to her a new world, she goes to confession: "When she went to confession, she invented little sins in order that she might stay there longer, kneeling in the shadow, her hands joined, her face against the grating beneath the whispering of the priest.

as Occurrences 1%

One of these is a bone with notches on it, one end of which rests on a tin pan, the other being held in the left hand, while, with a piece of bone in the right, which a medicine man draws over the notches, sounds as discordant and grating as possible are created.

around Occurrences 1%

Fireplace with a grating around it, left.

Which preposition to use with  gratings