Which preposition to use with tenant

of Occurrences 255%

The tenants of the house did not know her.

in Occurrences 56%

In Shropshire there were only five lay tenants in capite besides Roger Montgomery; in Kent, Bishop Odo held an enormous proportion of the manors, but the nature of his jurisdiction is not very clear, and its duration is too short to make it of much importance.

for Occurrences 32%

A tenant for life in an estate can only grant a lease for his own life.

at Occurrences 30%

This is not the case with the tenant at will, or from year to year, where the landlord has to keep the house in tenantable repair, and the tenant is only liable for waste beyond reasonable wear and tear.

on Occurrences 26%

"It was reported to Caesar that the highwayman Maternus lives in a cave on this Aventine estate, and that the slaves and tenants on the place, who, of course, all passed to the new owner when the estate was sold, not only tolerate him but supply him with victuals and news.

to Occurrences 20%

A tyrant, an oppressor, a bad landlord, a man who lets miserable tenements at a rack-rent (to come down to particulars), and exposes his wretched tenants to all those abominations of which we have heard so muchwell!

from Occurrences 11%

It is a rapidly growing quarter, for new chals and new shops spring up every year and quickly find a full complement of tenants from among the lower classes of the population.

with Occurrences 9%

A man and woman and four boys live in this room, joint tenants with nine snakes, most of them such as no remedy has been discovered for their bite.

by Occurrences 6%

He is tenant by custom to the planets, of whom he holds the twelve houses by lease parol; to them he pays yearly rent, his study and time, yet lets them out again with all his heart for 40s.

as Occurrences 6%

" Stephen welcomed most gladly the prospect of such tenants as these.

under Occurrences 6%

The real importance of the passage as bearing on the date of the introduction of feudal tenure is merely that it shows the system to have already become consolidated; all the land-owners of the kingdom had already become, somehow or other, vassals, either of the king or of some tenant under him.

after Occurrences 3%

" VI SEPTEMBER The office of Dwight Herbert Deacon, Dentist, Gold Work a Speciality (sic) in black lettering, and Justice of the Peace in gold, was above a store which had been occupied by one unlucky tenant after another, and had suffered long periods of vacancy when ladies' aid societies served lunches there, under great white signs, badly lettered.

during Occurrences 3%

Napoleon III now fixed his headquarters at Cavriana, in the same house that Francis Joseph had tenanted during the action.

within Occurrences 1%

The principal office of the Comic Paper was one of those amazingly unsympathetic rooms in which the walls, windows and doors all have a stiff, unsalient aspect of the most hard-finished indifference to every emotion of humanity, and a perfectly rigid insensibility to the pleasures or pains of the tenants within their impassive shelter.

against Occurrences 1%

No. 6 is thrown in chiefly for the purpose of an appearance of identity of interest between the labourer and the tenant against the Church.

around Occurrences 1%

There he lived like an estated gentleman, for Prairie du Pont was then nothing but a cluster of tenants around his feet.

into Occurrences 1%

A litigious landlord may drag the outgoing tenant into an expensive lawsuit, which he has no power to prevent.

like Occurrences 1%

As deputy landlord, Keith's father had to see this tenant like all the rest, but of social intercourse there was none, while on the other hand, Keith's mother kept up a gossiping acquaintance with the housekeeper.

per Occurrences 1%

Co. Tenant per la Curtesie d'Engleterre est, hon home prent feme seisie in fee simple ou en fee taile generall, ou seisie come heire de la taile speciall et ad issue per mesme la fame, male ou female, oies ou wife, soit lissue apres mort ou en vie si la feme de aie, la baron tiendra la terre durant sa vie, per la ley dengleterre.

than Occurrences 1%

I am apt to think, sometimes, that more servants than masters, that more tenants than landlords, will inherit the kingdom of heaven.

throughout Occurrences 1%

After he takes mother back to her room, he gives an hour to our people, the blacks of the plantation and his white tenants throughout the county.

until Occurrences 1%

The place had evidently been tenanted until quite lately.

Which preposition to use with  tenant