Which preposition to use with succeeding

in Occurrences 5024%

After a little time, I felt somewhat better, and succeeded in reaching the cupboard where, usually, I keep brandy and biscuits.

to Occurrences 596%

After a while, they succeed to a certain extent; the chain is still heavy, of course, but it does not gall them as poignantly as it used to do.

at Occurrences 91%

"Look at Letty," said I, succeeding at last in a laugh.

with Occurrences 81%

He didn't like the Republic, honestly thought it would never succeed with the Republicans (la Republique sans Republicains was for him its only chance)and he certainly had illusions and thought his friends and advisers would succeed in making and keeping a firm conservative government.

as Occurrences 50%

You cannot succeed as a writer of "lite comidy" if you continue to weave such tragic spells.

by Occurrences 44%

The Baron was well aware of this, and by ingeniously enticing him on board the Iris he succeeded by handing that small bomb concealed in a cigara Nihilist contrivance that had probably been seized by his police in Finlandin freeing himself from the rival who was destined to occupy his post."

on Occurrences 34%

Death of Ivan the Great; he is succeeded on the Russian throne by his son, Basil (Vasili IV).

for Occurrences 29%

By dividing my attentions among them all, I succeeded for a while in concealing from them the object of my preference; but the sex are too sharp-sighted to be long deceived in these matters.

beyond Occurrences 25%

Believing that no time should be lost, and that everything should be done to encourage the garrison and dishearten the enemy, he had recourse to a stratagem, which succeeded beyond his utmost anticipation.

without Occurrences 18%

With the attitude of attentiveness she was not always attentive; Mr. Holmes told her that she lacked concentration and that she could not succeed without it.

through Occurrences 10%

If the movement succeeds through non-violent non-co-operation, and that is the supposition Mr. Stokes has started with, the English whether they remain or retire, they will do so as friends and under a well-ordered agreement as between partners.

after Occurrences 9%

The fifth was Alfred, who succeeded after all the others to the whole sovereignty, and was your grandfather's grandfather."

during Occurrences 8%

And it is, of course, evident from what has happened since I parted from my hosts at the Château, that we have now amply succeeded during the last few weeks in bringing the retreating enemy to bay.

like Occurrences 7%

If nothing succeeds like success it is equally true that nothing brings honor like honor already achieved.

against Occurrences 7%

" "And how do you propose to succeed against the big 'If'?""In my plan of campaign expediency has no room.

under Occurrences 6%

Adams, like Burke, abhorred the violence of those political demagogues who massacred their king and turned their country into a vile shambles of blood and crime; he equally detested the military despotism which succeeded under Napoleon Bonaparte; and the Federalists generally agreed with him,even the farmers of New England, whose religious instincts and love of rational liberty were equally shocked.

than Occurrences 3%

But if, for the most part, the words be placed, as they are in the negligence of Prose; it is sufficient to denominate the way practicable: for we esteem that to be such, which, in the trial, oftener succeeds than misses.

about Occurrences 3%

Clovis had succeeded about the year 485 of our era, in destroying the last remnants of Roman domination in Gaul.

within Occurrences 3%

A profound silence succeeded within, which lasted for perhaps two minutes, at the end of which time the enemy was seen to advance through the smoke, in one compact column, with the steady tread of assured victors.

to Occurrences 2%

The Chancellor said that in the event of a minor succeeding to the throne, all the minor's acts would be valid, and under the responsibility of ministers the Great Seal might be put in the minor's name by the minor's sign manual to an Act creating a Regency.

before Occurrences 2%

Without more ado it set to work to gnaw the ropes with its teeth, and succeeded before long in setting the Lion free.

until Occurrences 2%

She hesitated, and then with a touch of reluctance continued: "I succeeded until a month or so ago.

past Occurrences 1%

In my first lecturing winter I spoke in the Hall of Representatives, St. Paul, to a large audience, and succeeded past all my hopes.

along Occurrences 1%

Our teacher is the man who has succeeded along the line in which we hope to succeed, whose success is measured as we hope to measure our own.

notwithstanding Occurrences 1%

They went out, in the strength of the Lord, resolved to do nothing in strife or vain-glory, but all in lowliness of mind, esteeming others better than themselves: and they succeeded notwithstanding the numerous hindrances; for the work was of God, and He gave them power to do all things without murmuring, in order to attain the salvation of the souls of their fellow-creatures.

Which preposition to use with  succeeding