Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] over and over [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 2 | Presentation of the results of evaluation has proved over and over again , in Oxford Polytechnic 's experience , to be one of the most critical variables in determining whether appropriate change is produced . |
| 3 | To take a single example , nature ( otherwise often profligate ) repeats any particularly useful trick it has learned over and over again . |
| 4 | As this book has insisted over and over again , sport is to do with attitudes and values not just with exercise . |
| 5 | He 'd heard over and over again how fast she 'd died . |
| 6 | Make the analogy with stick-figure drawings : you take more care with something you are going to use over and over again than with something you are going to use in one lesson only . |
| 7 | In short , it would seem that the relationship must have evolved over and over again . |
| 8 | Sally was stunned and kept repeating over and over again , ‘ She did n't want to go out — she knew it would happen ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 10 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 11 | ‘ She was so young , ’ his mother had whispered over and over again , until he wanted to shout at her to stop , ‘ so young , and all her life before her . ’ |
| 12 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 13 | I have attended many feminist seminars , workshops and group discussions about language , and there are certain folklinguistic assertions that I have heard over and over again from the ( nonlinguist ) women present . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The five Scottish ‘ Techs ’ have shown over and over again that they can achieve the same high academic standards as our eight universities . |
| 15 | N G Os have shown over and over again that by working alongside a community they can help identify the barriers to development experienced by that community and they can support the community as it works to make social and economic progress . |
| 16 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 17 | We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business . |
| 18 | I went through what I wanted to say over and over again , unable to respond to Mary 's attempts to reassure me . |