Which preposition to use with lent

to Occurrences 116%

To enable the 54th to move, the transport lent to the 52nd and 75th

In Occurrences 14%

They will begin an hour or two later than they used to, that we may not be so tired as we were last year when we came to Lent In spite of the amusements of the carnival, I am always faithful to my poor harp, and they say that I make great progress with it.

on Occurrences 12%

" "Thou lendest on sufficient pledges to masks, careful Hosea, or fame belies thy generosity.

for Occurrences 11%

The Army Council have consented, at the request of the First Lord of the Admiralty, to lend for this purpose the services of Colonel Alexander Gibb, K.B.E., C.B., R.E., Chief Engineer, Port Construction, British Armies in France.

at Occurrences 9%

Thou hast moneys to lend at usury?" "The question had better be put to the Republic's treasury!

unto Occurrences 7%

| iiij to Thomas Dowton, Mr Porter | Lent unto the company the 18 of Aguste 1598 to bye a Booke |

in Occurrences 5%

A very large proportion of the funds which they dispensed was given or lent in small sums in order to enable poor Jews "to set up for themselves."

to Occurrences 5%

He remained, however, at his post at Calcutta, with the exception of a brief stay at a bungalow lent to him by Mr. Beadon at Bhagulpore; his pleasantest occupation being the arrangement of plans for smoothing the path of Lady Elgin, who had settled to join him in India.

Against Occurrences 4%

So they, enranged well, Did on those two attend, And their best service lend Against their wedding day, which was not long: 125 Sweet Themmes!

of Occurrences 4%

And there is seven years and seven lents of pardon; and the body of St. George lieth in the middle of the quire or choir of the said chapel, and in his tomb is an hole that a man may put in his hand.

from Occurrences 4%

The Deputy Controller of Auxiliary Shipbuilding was an officer lent from the War Office, whose previous experience had lain, I believe, largely in the railway world; some of his assistants and staff were, however, men with experience of shipbuilding.

with Occurrences 3%

Shylock being a hard-hearted man, exacted the payment of the money he lent with such severity, that he was much disliked by all good men, and particularly by Anthonio, a young merchant of Venice; and Shylock as much hated Anthonio, because he used to lend money to people in distress, and would never take any interest for the money he lent; therefore there was great enmity between this covetous Jew and the generous merchant Anthonio.

without Occurrences 3%

He often lent without any at all.

about Occurrences 2%

The landlady was communicative: she told us that some travellers like ourselves some time ago had given her a New Testament, which she had lent about the village, together with tracts, and that she wished for more.

by Occurrences 2%

Patriots, in peace, assert the people's right; With noble stubbornness resisting might: No lawless mandates from the court receive, Nor lend by force, but in a body give.

of Occurrences 2%

I'll gie ye the lend of some of our Jamie's clubs, and it's no way at a' to the links," Secretly I had nae doot o' my bein' able to hit a little

out Occurrences 2%

she, You plainly in her face may read it, Could lend out of that moment's store Five years of happiness or more 135 To any that might need it.

at Occurrences 2%

George Bartley (1782?-1858), the comedian, lectured on astronomy and poetry at the Lyceum during Lent at this time.

by Occurrences 2%

He saw her first at the window, and with a ready recognition of the enchantment lent by distance took the first possible opportunity of a closer observation.

unto Occurrences 2%

("Lent unto thomas Dowton, the 11 of Aprel 1598, to bye tafitie to macke a Rochet for the beshoppe in earlle good wine, xxiiii s." Henslowe's Diary, ed.

with Occurrences 2%

A dead hand at casuistry has often proved more than a match for Lent with all his quarantines.

from Occurrences 1%

Others abstained in Lent from all food for two consecutive days, but others fasted by taking nothing to eat all day, until the evening" (Kellner, op.

letterswithout Occurrences 1%

Of such Victorine, assistant editor to Miranda, learned richly from Annawho merely lent letterswithout Anna knowing it.

during Occurrences 1%

In the evening dancing is vigorously pursued to the music of a guitar; unfortunately, it was Lent during my visit, when all public amusements are prohibited.

than Occurrences 1%

Thus Vasco gaily boasts that he has kept a longer and more rigorous Lent than Your Holiness, following the decrees of your predecessors, for it has lasted uninterruptedly for four years; during which time he and his men have lived upon the products of the earth, the fruits of trees, and even of them there was not always enough.

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