Which preposition to use with past

in Occurrences 83%

Kate saw the past in her father's conduct with terrifying vividness.

of Occurrences 80%

But how inaccessible is virtue, with a past of unforgiven sin!

with Occurrences 58%

I would sum up all your Beloved Plays, and all the Things in them that are past with such Silence by; because written by Men: such Masculine Strokes in me, must not be allow'd.

for Occurrences 46%

The just and elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the past for the present tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what was George Canning.

to Occurrences 44%

" "Were you afraid of physical violence from him, or only that he would expose your past to the other servants?"

by Occurrences 23%

We have tried to do so in the past by object and nature lessons, but we must admit that they are not the means by which young children seek to know life, or by which they appreciate its beauty.

from Occurrences 19%

Restitution of the provinces and territories taken in the past from the Allies by force and against the wish of the inhabitants. 5th.

as Occurrences 18%

Knowing what you know of Hill's past as a man who will rob his master, knowing that he attempted to deceive you with regard to this plan of Riversbrook in order that you might play your part in his cunning scheme, I urge you to ask yourselves whether it is not more probable that Hill fired the shot which killed Sir Horace Fewbanks than that the prisoner did so.

into Occurrences 14%

This one case I had taken out of the category of wrongs to be righted, by assuming arbitrarily the position of Providence in my own person,for, of course, I had bound myself to pay the poor creature's rent as well as redeem her goods,and, whatever might happen to her in the future, had taken the past into my own hands.

at Occurrences 9%

Wherever Rome has passed, there a flower will blow for ever, wherever Rome has been, there is light, wherever Rome has built, there is something which moves us as nothing else can do, and not least here in England of my heart upon the verge of the Saxon shore, while we recall the past at evening and question the future, the future which will not be known.

without Occurrences 8%

To live in one of these streets might disgust the unseasoned stranger for ever with Southern life; but to roam through them in the early twilight is the way to find the spirit of the past without searching.

on Occurrences 7%

We have depended enormously in the past on the initiative and virtue of the individual adventurer; if our adventurers were to fail us, which is not likely, or if the State were to supersede them, and attempt to do their work, which is not conceivable, our political power and influence would vanish with them.

between Occurrences 6%

I do believe thee, and will tell thee something That past between the Prince and I last night;

before Occurrences 6%

And the long-forgotten sound brought the past before him with such a vivid sense of reality that he positively shivered.

over Occurrences 5%

And the Song came onward over all that great Country, and past over us, and went onward into the far Land beyond the Dome, and did be caught by the voices of Millions that did be hid in great distances, and so to go onward forever, and to die at last unto a mighty silence.

through Occurrences 5%

We may well believe that she saw clearly the past through the mists which obscured the future.

than Occurrences 4%

It was drawn by a horse whose appearance, like that of the piano, spoke more eloquently of services in the past than of hopeful promises for the future.

behind Occurrences 4%

"I must put the past behind me," he went on presently.

about Occurrences 3%

Yet London has so little of her glory and her past about her in material things, that it is often only by her attitude to life you might know she is not a creation of yesterday.

like Occurrences 3%

And if a brown dust lies on them, I bow and sniff upon the rack, as though the past like an ancient fop in peruke and buckle were giving me the courtesy of its snuff box.

among Occurrences 2%

Although wars of extermination may have now and then occurred in the past among tribes and small peoples, such wars are not considered decent nowadays; and the numbers killed in modern campaignshorribly "scientific" and "efficient" as the methods areis such a small fraction of the population concerned as to have no appreciable result.

out Occurrences 2%

No, the only thing to be enjoyed in Southampton to-day is the old wall with its gateways, that upon the west still valiantly outfaces the modern world and recalls for us all that noble great past out of which we are come.

along Occurrences 2%

Even now, my Lord, he past along this way.

tyrannyagainst Occurrences 2%

The reforms that have taken place since the death of Robespierre, though not sufficient for the demands of justice, are yet enough to relax the strength of the government; and the Jacobins, though excluded from authority, yet influence by the turbulence of their chiefs in the Convention, and the recollection of their past tyrannyagainst the return of which the fluctuating politics of the Assembly offer no security.

beyond Occurrences 2%

Now an ye do think my shameful past beyond redemption, if these arms be too vile to clasp her as my wife, if my love shall bring her sorrow or shame hereafter, thenbecause I do truly love herI will see her no more; I willleave her to love one more worthy than I.

Which preposition to use with  past