Which preposition to use with perpetrated

in Occurrences 58%

But surely the time has now comeeven with this world-warwhen the great heart of the peoples will wake up to the savagery and the folly perpetrated in their names.

on Occurrences 21%

The man who took the bottles from the club-house's wine-vault did so within a few minutes of the time when this crime was perpetrated on your sister.

at Occurrences 8%

Was there an implication of any security for the future that this outrage on civilization would not again be perpetrated at the first profitable opportunity?

for Occurrences 6%

It is painful to see the forlorn attempts which are made to raise the condition of this noble race of men, to read the sad nonsense that is perpetrated for their benefit.

with Occurrences 5%

It is not through any inherent vice of legal provision that such outrages are perpetrated with impunity: it is rather in the neglect of the application of the law which exists on this subject.

within Occurrences 5%

" This is the fifth hoax he has perpetrated within two weeks.

against Occurrences 3%

Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, a member of the Society of Friends, stricken with a sense of the injustice perpetrated against the African race, repaired to the West Indies, in order that he might examine, with his own eyes, the real state of the question between the two classes.

under Occurrences 3%

The Sub-Inspector was deeply incensed in finding this source of illicit profit cut off, and his vengeance was perpetrated under the pretence of law.

during Occurrences 3%

That they by no means expected that the hostility to the Rebellion Losses Bill would have displayed itself in the outrages which have been perpetrated during the last few days is certain.

from Occurrences 2%

But, to assure your mind that horrible crimes were perpetrated from zeal in the doctrines of their religion, I will give you an instance connected with Sweden in olden time.

until Occurrences 2%

He said that dreadful cruelties were perpetrated until the close of slavery, and they were inseparable from slavery.

near Occurrences 2%

When my friend Simon was put in jail and flogged for not being able to give evidence about a robbery perpetrated near his house, abá, for two reales and a half and a string of garlics, the town clerk got him out.

as Occurrences 2%

Under such circumstances the worst outrages were perpetrated as a matter of course; among the Aetolians, for instance, a general amnesty was proclaimed and a new public peace was made up solely for the purpose of entrapping and putting to death a number of emigrants.

without Occurrences 1%

Mrs. Smith, who was a widow, and whose husband had been a bosom friend of Mr. Elliot's, described him as "a man without heart or conscience, a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who for his own interest or ease would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery that could be perpetrated without risk of damaging his general character."

after Occurrences 1%

Many a jolly ride I had and many a boyish prank was perpetrated after getting well away from and out of the sight of home with the horse.

around Occurrences 1%

He regarded a foreign consul, with the right of exterritoriality, as a hostile force in the way of his ambitions, and, therefore, until he found that one was not to be bought or worried into indifference to the injustice perpetrated around him, he treated him as an enemy.

Before Occurrences 1%

Is this outrage to be perpetrated Before our very eyes?

of Occurrences 1%

All that human genius, inspired by faith, could achieve of best, all that fanaticism, sensualism, atheism, could perpetrate of worst, do we find in the cycle of those representations which have been dedicated to the glory of the Virgin.

about Occurrences 1%

Others assert that it is a forgery, which was perpetrated about the year 1816.

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