Example sentences of "[vb base] again and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut said that you must never let go of the sledge , I say again and again to myself as I am pulled through snow heaps and ruts . |
| 2 | But as the pollsters say again and again , even at their most accurate they can only give ‘ snapshots ’ of opinion at any given moment . |
| 3 | Ribbons appear again and again , ultimately in the maypole dance , before they disappear in a flutter of rose petals when Mother Simone relents and blesses the happy couple . |
| 4 | In the president 's nationalist speeches , the words and symbols of the brutal wartime state appear again and again . |
| 5 | Next to the incessant bombardment , the stink of putrefaction and the utter desolation of the battlefield , Verdun combatants testify again and again to the terrifying isolation , seldom experienced to the same degree in other sectors . |
| 6 | And then it was chainsawed to a stump , split into planks , seasoned , cut again and finally curved into a chair arm . |
| 7 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 8 | I hear again and again . |
| 9 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 10 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 11 | Automatic re-dialling facilities , which try again and again until clear line is available , have simplified many services , including transmission of facsimiles . |
| 12 | They pull themselves to their feet , stagger a step or two , tumble over and try again and again , until they can walk and run and skip and jump . |
| 13 | And then , having cut it in half , turn again and again at the charge to carve it , neatly , for Thorfinn 's well-placed and well-protected infantry to engulf and slaughter . |
| 14 | Within a short time the resulting single cell will divide , and divide again and again in the development of the individual now growing . |
| 15 | Then there was voices , and then it sounded as if the boot went down and then there was the doors bang again and then it revved off and it was n't long it came back . |
| 16 | Is he aware that that problem is made worse by a small hard core of young criminals who offend again and again , but that that is not always known to the justices ? |
| 17 | This hotel is a popular choice with Enterprise clients , many of whom return again and again . |
| 18 | Did she find the first reward insufficient and return again and again for more bites at this financially rewarding cherry ? |
| 19 | People return again and again to these precious shores . |
| 20 | Make your day special by visiting Buckleys Yesterday 's World ; visitors return again and again , always finding something new to see and do . |
| 21 | I do not think that that is enough , but I am delighted that my right hon. Friends have again and again spoken of the necessity for plant and machinery . |
| 22 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |