Which preposition to use with actions

of Occurrences 2747%

They involve the intense and complicated action of many and of complex powers.

in Occurrences 574%

There is not a feature in the character, there is hardly an action in the life of this exemplary personage, that does not mark him as a true servant of CHRIST.

on Occurrences 301%

That would mean four straight, if it so happened that the home team won the games, and the loser would never have gotten action on its own grounds.

for Occurrences 204%

But in back of us there was any kind of action for your money.

to Occurrences 183%

When Carleton became governor of Canada he at once issued a proclamation abolishing all the fees and perquisites attached to his position and explained his action to the home authorities in the following words: 'There is a certain appearance of dirt, a sort of meanness, in exacting fees on every occasion.

by Occurrences 147%

They haven't had time to go far," said Billie, stirred to instant action by the thought.

at Occurrences 142%

Perhaps it was the singular calm of Donnegan; no matter how quiet he sat he suggested the sleeping cat which can leap out of dead sleep into fighting action at a touch.

with Occurrences 141%

His third table includes thirty-five actions with single ships on each side, between the years 1793 and 1815.

against Occurrences 136%

The action against me was well brought.

as Occurrences 107%

Then as Jack Vance and Diggory stood staring blankly at each other in the deepening winter twilight, they suddenly blossomed out into heroes heroes, it is true, in flannel cricket-caps and turned-down collars, but heroes, at all events to my mind, as genuine in the spirit which prompted their action as those whose deeds are known in song and story.

from Occurrences 44%

The achievement was gigantic, but it had no effect in taking attention or diverting action from those movements that offered at once an advantage to our common cause, while disintegrating the hoary tyrannies of Central and Eastern Europe.

than Occurrences 40%

ATTILA himself, like any high-minded savage of his crew, would have quickly avenged, as an insult, any attempt to ascribe to him another motive for his action than the pure and simple desire for plunder: nor did he and his men pretend to lead the Europe of their day in any of the branches of thought which go towards making the culture of any country.

between Occurrences 33%

This "not too late," whatever she meant by it, was indescribably painful to the listeners, oppressed as they were by the knowledge that Adelaide lay in her grave, and that all fancies, all hopes, all meditated actions between these two were now, so far as this world goes, forever at an end.

without Occurrences 29%

And a significant circumstance which came to Gifford's knowledge a day or two after his interview with Edith Morriston in the garden of Wynford, was the cause of his beginning to take action without further delay.

among Occurrences 24%

As to the final outcome of united thought and group action among women, no one can doubt.

into Occurrences 20%

This is an instance of the disposition generally found in writers of lives, to exalt every common occurrence and action into wonder.

of Occurrences 19%

From this, and from "The Life and Military Actions of Eugene," Lond.

during Occurrences 17%

Now, owing to her effort, she has fallen; but how large a part of her fall is as much due to the Entente as to her action during the War and since.

through Occurrences 11%

By institutions of government I mean the established rule or order of action through which the sovereign (in our case the sovereign people) attains the ends of government.

off Occurrences 10%

Misconduct of the Duke of Orléans in the Action off Ushant.

over Occurrences 10%

Darry, your class will have to take action over such a remark as that.

under Occurrences 10%

This is so true, that the same author constantly directed infirm persons to use such a degree of exercise before emersion, as might produce increased action of the vascular system, with some increase of heat; and thus secure a force of re-action under the shock, which otherwise might not always take place.

towards Occurrences 8%

"We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions towards the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove it towards all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to the government in the hour of test.

near Occurrences 8%

Already we could see the flashes of Italian Field Guns in action near the summit.

within Occurrences 7%

In his fictitious plays, with two notable exceptions, it was Shakespeare's constant practice to bring the whole action within the frame of the picture, opening at such a point that no retrospect should be necessary, beyond what could be conveyed in a few casual words.

Which preposition to use with  actions