Which preposition to use with recipients

of Occurrences 169%

'The Willows' was simply a charming retreat where he sent them to try his favorite tonics of sunlight and oxygen; they never dreamed they were to be the recipients of favors which would not be rendered in the bill.

in Occurrences 2%

In one sense it is true that we are the recipients in our own State of many civil rights and of a very large degree of civil equality.

for Occurrences 2%

It thanks the recipient for his kindness to the child of a friend of Lamb's, Samuel Anthony Bloxam, Coleridge having assisted in getting Frederick Bloxam into Eton (where he was a master) on the foundation.

to Occurrences 2%

The first Renaissance took us from the position of passive recipient to active interpreter.

with Occurrences 2%

Winona bribed this away from the recipient with money.

on Occurrences 1%

" The hearty kicks with which he punctuated this speech brought forth a whoop of pain from the recipient on each occasion.

than Occurrences 1%

No royal accolade could be dearer to its recipients than this quaint, new christening!"

like Occurrences 1%

They strike the mind of the recipient like the sudden ringing of an alarm clock bell.

at Occurrences 1%

The recipient at first thought of running up to Ghoria, in view of softening Ghaneshyám Babu's heart by a personal appeal, but the anger caused by his want of brotherly feeling prevailed.

by Occurrences 1%

It is possible to be generous at another person's expense: it is possible to injure the recipient by mistimed liberality; or to ruin one's fortune by open house and prodigal hospitality.

from Occurrences 1%

The audience should be taught to not only to think but also to actively "will" the progress of the recipient from the start to the finish of the hunt.

as Occurrences 1%

" It is highly characteristic of Mr. Gladstone that, when this letter was shown to him by its recipient as a specimen of epistolary oddity, he read it, not with a smile, but with a portentous frown, and, handing it back, sternly asked, "What does the fellow mean by quoting an engagement entered into by my predecessor as binding on me?" It is not only clergy "defrauded" of expected dignities that write odd letters.

Which preposition to use with  recipients