Which preposition to use with schools

of Occurrences 2280%

The Conservatoire is quite as much a social feature as a school of music.

in Occurrences 1004%

" While Mary was at the school in Edinburgh, some of the other girls she met there tried to talk her out of being a missionary.

for Occurrences 870%

Van Speyk was educated in one of the public schools for which Amsterdam is famous.

at Occurrences 477%

Mary also wanted to build a church and school at Ifako.

with Occurrences 191%

" "But, Selene, everybody knows we ain't millionaires, and that you got in with that crowd through being friends at school with Amy Rosen.

to Occurrences 113%

Individual training cannot suddenly become class discipline, neither can children be switched from the Nursery School to a full-blown class system.

on Occurrences 110%

Mary's real job was to teach the children in the school on Mission Hill.

of Occurrences 75%

Cardinal Richelieu, that great and wise Statesman, said, That there was no surer Testimony to be given of the flourishing Greatness of a State, than publick Pleasures and Divertisementsfor they are, says hethe Schools of Vertue, where Vice is always either punish't, or disdain'd.

as Occurrences 62%

characterthe fact being that he was one of those unmitigated old scamps who owe to the accident of having lived in Revolutionary times, the distinction of being held up to the emulation of primary schools as a "Patriot Hero."

from Occurrences 52%

But long after their earliest inmates had conquered Desire and had gained Nirvana for their souls the followers of the Mahayana school from Northern India took the dwellings for their own use and carved out of the austere walls of their precursors' cells those images and idols which are now the chief feature of the caves.

under Occurrences 37%

When, at the end of May, both the heat of the climate and family claims necessitated her return home, she placed her little school under the care of a teacher whom the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East provided.

by Occurrences 37%

"We've got to be back at the school by half-past five.

without Occurrences 32%

His poor good girls will now have to receive their afflicted mother in an inaccessible hovel in an obscure village in Herts, where they have been long struggling to make a school without effect; and poor deaf

into Occurrences 26%

He and Vance had gone down after morning school into what was called the playroom, to partake of two more of the latter's mince-pies, and on their return to the schoolroom found a crowd assembled round Acton, who, seated on the top of a small cupboard which always served as a judicial bench, was hearing a case in which Mugford was the defendant, while Jacobs and another boy named Cross appeared as plaintiffs.

during Occurrences 24%

The conduct of the school during the present term has been far from satisfactory: two acts of gross misconduct have already been committed, and I cannot but blame those whom I hold mainly responsible for the order of the school that in both instances the offenders should have gone unpunished.

like Occurrences 23%

In a big school like Ronleigh College there was plenty of room for everybody to go his own way without fear of running his head into people whom he wished to avoid.

after Occurrences 22%

"It must be a verra important book," he added, smiling at them as he fitted the key in the lock, "to be bringing you back to school after school's out.

than Occurrences 18%

Riversdale is a far truer type of the Catholic country squire of the old school than the somewhat morbid and impossible Helbeck of Bannisdale.

in Occurrences 17%

The first report tells how necessary are Nursery Schools in such surroundings.

for Occurrences 15%

Miss Caroline Bishop was appointed to lecture to the Infants' teachers under the London School Board; Miss Heerwart took charge of a training college for Kindergarten teachers in connection with the British and Foreign School Society; the Froehel Society was founded, and Madame Michaelis took the Kindergarten into the newly established High Schools for Girls.

among Occurrences 14%

There was in the charity-school among the other children a little Jewish girl, so clever and good; the best, in fact, of them all; but one of the lessons she could not attendthe one when religion was taught, for this was a Christian school.

throughout Occurrences 14%

William the Conqueror entertained the difficult project of totally abolishing the English language, and for that purpose, he ordered that in all schools throughout the kingdom, the youth should be instructed in the French tongue.

near Occurrences 13%

You were at The Birches, that school near Chatford, weren't you?

over Occurrences 11%

On the 20th of January, I went to The Times office on M.G. Road and after talking with the person in charge for sometime about what I had been doing during the past year I was asked whether I would take a few workshops in some schools over the next couple of days.

about Occurrences 10%

The preparatory schools about which you inquire have nothing to do with the reformation of wicked parrots.

Which preposition to use with  schools