Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 2 | It has been said over and over again that pupils need to gain confidence , and that confidence comes from success . |
| 3 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 4 | This over-representation of lone mothers among poor families has been found over and over again re.g . |
| 5 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 6 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 7 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 8 | Seriously though , motions like this one have been debated over and over again . |
| 9 | Examples such as the disappearance of the dinosaurs have been chewed over and over ad nauseam , with every possible cause blamed , from meteoric impact to chronic constipation . |
| 10 | The arguments that were current in 1973 about our membership of the Community have been rehearsed over and over again today in the same vein . |