Which preposition to use with tensing

of Occurrences 105%

"What, Mas' Tom," he exclaimed, "you mean dat you gib him de whip?" "Yes," I said, "I give him the whip, Gump," and luckily the old man could not distinguish between the past and present tenses of the verb, so that I was spared a lie.

with Occurrences 45%

The air, tempered by the faint flavor of salt in the water, filled the travelers with an intoxicating vigor, lent strength to their jaded forces, which, while tense with expectation, could not wholly resist the delicious aroma, the lovely outlines of primeval forest, the melody of strange birds, startled along the shore by the wheezy puffing of the ferry.

in Occurrences 29%

Seventy-six deputies, old men and young, priests, lawyers, doctors, merchants, and princes, sat tense in their seats.

for Occurrences 18%

Then she went to the general delivery window, tense for a new ordeal.

as Occurrences 13%

Yet every drop of the wild blood in his splendid body was racing in a ferment of excitement that Kazan had never before experienced; every nerve and fiber of his wonderful muscles was tense as steel wire.

by Occurrences 4%

The distance you are at, cuts up tenses by the root.

of Occurrences 4%

She shrank away as she felt the tensing of his arm and was conscious of the contact of his rag-clothed body.

under Occurrences 3%

And she, she was aware of his body, slender and tense under his white flannels.

at Occurrences 3%

The scene is stamped indelibly on my memorythe bulwarks high above me, the steep, sleek deck, the piratical figure tense at the wheel, the snarling water racing from beneath us, the lurid glow to landward crawling up on us inch by inch like a hungry wild beast.

to Occurrences 3%

He reduces the moods to three, and the tenses to three; and so did Dalton, in the very same words.

than Occurrences 2%

If any one will give to this mood more tenses than these, the five which are adopted by Staniford, are perhaps the least objectionable: namely, "Present, If thou love, or do love;

without Occurrences 2%

Second, That the subjective mood, to which he himself had previously given all the tenses without inflection, is not different in form from the indicative, except in the present tense.

into Occurrences 2%

Some suppose the compound or participial form, as I am writing, to be more definite in time, than the simple form, as I write, or the emphatic form, as I do write; and accordingly they divide all the tenses into Indefinite and Definite.

from Occurrences 2%

The old men had passed their manhood with nerves tense from the strain of unending watchfulness, and souls embittered by terrible and repeated disasters; the young men had been cradled in stockaded forts, round which there prowled a foe whose comings and goings were unknown, and who was unseen till the moment when the weight of his hand was felt.

like Occurrences 1%

The man's eyes were blazing in his dark face, and his crouched figure was tense like that of a lion about to spring.

between Occurrences 1%

His hands clenched tense between his buckskin knees, his eyes glanced here and there restlessly, and an indefinable shadow of something which Virginia felt herself obtuse in labelling desperation, and yet to which she discovered it impossible to fit a name, descended on his features, darkening them.

against Occurrences 1%

But her whole body was tense against his, tense and quivering like a stretched wire.

on Occurrences 1%

He stood poised and tense on the gayly decorated platform, himself a fine picture of physical young manhood.

through Occurrences 1%

We have seen in the Old Testament the literature of the people of religion, commissioned with its normal evolution; writings charged with deep religiousness; the records of the various moods and tenses through which religion grew continuously and insistently toward perfection, in an organic process watched and directed by a Higher Power than man.

Which preposition to use with  tensing