Which preposition to use with act

of Occurrences 7173%

It is a turning from a delight in sin, or an indifference to sin, or merely a moral aversion to it, to a deep-rooted hatred of every thought and act of sin, to penitence, and to an earnest desire to pattern after God. 4.

as Occurrences 2091%

W. acted as interpreter and found that very fatiguing.

in Occurrences 1631%

How ought the soul of man to act in an emergency?

on Occurrences 891%

Although no danger seemed imminent, nevertheless the necessity of acting on my own initiative and responsibility oppressed me somewhat.

with Occurrences 685%

The Europeans consider the natives of Hindostan to be feeble and effeminate; but the soul, that which distinguishes man from brutes, acts with an intensity and constancy of purpose of which they can furnish no examples.

for Occurrences 584%

'In taking this step I have, I am sure, acted for the best.

at Occurrences 404%

" His addresses were so fervent that they acted at times like an electric shock.

like Occurrences 392%

Members in exstasy jumped up onto the benchesstood on their headsthrew their false teeth all about the floor, and acted like a lot of Rocky Mountain injuns, chock full of New England rum.

by Occurrences 385%

I have, Antonio, besides your particular Revenge, one of my own to act by this deceit, since all my Industry to see the charming Julia has hitherto been vain, I have resolv'd upon a new project, if this False Count pass upon 'em, as I doubt not but he will, and that he gets admittance into the House, I'll pass for one of his Domesticks.

under Occurrences 262%

On returning to our lodgings, we, acting under the influence of long habit, went to bed, though half the family were up, and engaged in their ordinary employments.

against Occurrences 161%

I have had a very good Friend at work, a thousand Guyneys, that seldom fails; but yet in vain, I being the first Transgressor since the Act against Duelling.

from Occurrences 145%

Each country, however, acted from a different state of mind.

to Occurrences 125%

She must not keep her interests and gifts for out-of-school use; if she has a sense of humour she must use it, if she is fond of pretty clothes she must wear them in school, if she appreciates music she must help her class to do the same, if she has dramatic gifts she must act to them.

without Occurrences 123%

They were perfectly aware of the fact that I had acted without orders and entirely on my own responsibility, and therefore they felt the more grateful.

through Occurrences 70%

Just as the sun acts through a sheet of glass so the Law of Attraction acts through the conventionalities of a race.

before Occurrences 57%

Such is a specimen of the play as it was originally acted before Queen Elizabeth, at the Inner Temple, in the year 1568.

towards Occurrences 47%

But when Providence, who is better to us all than our aunts, gives me a pig, remembering my temptation and my fall, I shall endeavor to act towards it more in the spirit of the donor's purpose.

toward Occurrences 34%

In this way, after a long time, partly by persuading him through friends, and partly by scaring him through his soldiers, and writing and acting toward him in every way as thoroughly friendly, he induced him to come into his camp.

within Occurrences 21%

We have seen that everything turns on the obligation of our subjective part to act within the limits of the suggestion which has been most deeply impressed upon it.

after Occurrences 21%

In the light of her experience of men, so limited and so sharply contrasted, she made a simple classification of them; they were Cransters or Alecs; and each class acted after its kind.

into Occurrences 14%

To carry this act into execution, the commissioners, by successive proclamations, ordered all persons who claimed under qualifications, and in addition, all who had borne arms against the parliament, to "remove and transplant" themselves into Connaught and Clare before the first of May, 1654.

over Occurrences 13%

With the development of the arts of advertising, touting, adulteration, political jobbery, and speculation, acting over an ever-widening area of competition, the fight between the large joint stock businesses grows always more cruel and complex.

among Occurrences 12%

The origin of this act among the people of Tuscany, is related by Cicero in the following manner: "A peasant," says he, "ploughing in the field, his ploughshare running pretty deep in the earth, turned up a clod, from whence sprung a child, who taught him and the other Tuscans the art of divination."

out Occurrences 12%

And if you've opened the eyes of Nelly to the fact that you truly love her and I've been only acting out of a heartless shamwhy, I'm glad of itI rejoice, Henry, I swear I do!" He came forward, smiling, and held out his hand; Lord Nick struck it down, and Donnegan shrank back, holding his wrist tight in the fingers of his other hand.

throughout Occurrences 12%

By both sides the fact was admitted that he had acted throughout as a far-seeing, sagacious diplomatist, who, while giving preeminence, as was natural, to the welfare of his own state, had sought to conserve the cause of letters, even amid the turmoil incident upon the collision of political interests.

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