Which preposition to use with policeman

in Occurrences 37%

The fourth man was a policeman in uniform, who, at a word from Simmonds, took his station at the door.

on Occurrences 23%

Policemen on bicycles dashed along Unter den Linden proclaiming the joyful tidings.

with Occurrences 21%

Fast communications were made by runners; even the policeman with a bicycle of the modern urban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination.

at Occurrences 18%

Everybody was a policeman at the Gap, I added; and, naturally, he still looked puzzled; but he began at once to question the boys about their studies, and, in an hour, he had his daily schedule mapped out and submitted to me.

of Occurrences 11%

They talk a great deal about the twenty-eight inch beet they have grown in California, but a policeman of this city has a beat three miles long.

to Occurrences 10%

"Good dogs," said the other policeman to Jim and me.

for Occurrences 8%

*** Roughly speaking, says a weekly paper, there is a policeman for every sixteen square miles.

from Occurrences 4%

There was Shelley, the Irishman, a big policeman from Johannesburg, badly wounded in the thigh.

after Occurrences 4%

He told him plainly that if he did not he would send a policeman after him.

about Occurrences 3%

''No, you won't,' sings out Jerry, and with that he jumps out of bed right at me, and Putty Henderson he comes at me from the other side, and, between the two, they gave me the worst lickin' I ever got in my born days, and then they dragged me down stairs and kicked me out the front door, and I had hardly time to pick myself up before I saw a policeman about a block off, and if he hadn't been a fat one he'd had me sure.

across Occurrences 3%

" Van Bibber leaned easily against the wall and read the signs about him, and kept one eye on a policeman across the street.

under Occurrences 3%

The civil force of Montreala city containing about 50,000 inhabitants of different races, with secret societies and other agencies of mischief in constant activityconsists of two policemen under the authority of the Government, and seventy appointed by the Corporation.

before Occurrences 2%

On page 93, Mittelmann relates at length his genuine Prussian joy at humiliating a Belgian policeman before the latter's compatriots.

as Occurrences 2%

Eighty-eight policemen were bitten by dogs in 1913, but only forty-four in 1915, says The Daily Mail, and quotes a policeman as saying that "dogs are not half so vicious as they used to be."

without Occurrences 2%

Yes! and you loved to take in earnest vague Hanoverian threats of possible arrest for your baby-treason, and, for some time, I know, you never passed a policeman without a dignified tremor, as of one who might at any moment find a lodging in the Tower.

along Occurrences 2%

The colonel of a Massachusetts regiment showed some practical humor in dealing with a pertinacious claimant who asserted title to a negro found within his lines, and had brought a policeman along with him to aid in enforcing it.

into Occurrences 2%

One can't turn a policeman into a skilled worker at a moment's notice.

outside Occurrences 2%

"Everything quiet?" "Oh, yes, sir; there was two policemen outside all night, and Rogers and me inside.

amongst Occurrences 1%

We also noticed a policeman amongst the company.

within Occurrences 1%

This Temple of Faro was never impertinently molested by the police; and it was a subject of remark, among people who thought they had been robbed there, that there was never a policeman within sight of the door.

beside Occurrences 1%

They have to station a policeman beside his picture in the Academy to keep off the crowd.

by Occurrences 1%

Satan even made friends with a scrawny little yellow dog that followed an old drunkard arounda dog that, when his master fell in the gutter, would go and catch a policeman by the coat-tail, lead the officer to his helpless master, and spend the night with him in jail.

like Occurrences 1%

If she create a policeman like Fouché, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.

near Occurrences 1%

he asked a policeman near King Charles's statue.

astride Occurrences 1%

" Presently with a spasm of sick anger he saw the now familiar form of a policeman astride the garden wall.

Which preposition to use with  policeman