Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and over [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 2 | You can plan grand lectures , but in the end you really do learn by doing them over and over again , adjusting this or changing that . |
| 3 | Now he overwhelms me , he is so human , so full of moods and gentleness and wonderful tunes and things so simple-deep I play them over and over again as once I used to copy drawings I liked . |
| 4 | One explains to them over and over again the benefits : it 's quick , cheap , no hard feelings on either side — ’ |
| 5 | But television tends to block this ability by filling our minds with its own images and reiterating them over and over again . |
| 6 | I do n't know how many of them are genuine , or how many of them are not genuine , and I have to deal with them over and over again . |
| 7 | As far as she was concerned , she told me over and over again , we were responsible for Dennis 's death . |
| 8 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 9 | ( 10 ) He would concoct anecdotes and then he 'd tell them to me over and over again , you know , obviously not realizing that he 'd told them to me before . |
| 10 | You have explained to me over and over how this thing can be possible . |
| 11 | Frantically crossing himself over and over again , he fled screaming towards the grooms ' quarter as fast as his fat legs would carry him . |
| 12 | Rather than such force being seen as a prerogative of the state , it is seen by many in the alliance to inhere in the people of Ulster who over and over again need to assert their autonomous rights . |
| 13 | I 've told you over and over again , I am here all the time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 15 | He 's so eager to learn he almost quivers like Shep there , he repeats everything over and over again , as if he 's learning it off by heart . ’ |
| 16 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 17 | So how dare anyone criticise a true champion who has proved herself over and over again . |
| 18 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
| 19 | Ugly fat cow , she told herself over and over again . |
| 20 | There was no reason to be frightened of Julius ! she told herself over and over again . |
| 21 | She 'd have to say it to herself over and over again . |
| 22 | They told her over and over again that she must not do it , but she could n't help it . |
| 23 | In fact , he realized , she had simply adopted the words other people must have said to her over and over again . |
| 24 | Though the artist was ill with tuberculosis and had no money to pay for his keep , Marama looked after him while he painted her over and over again ; sometimes nude , sometimes dressed , and nearly always against the background of island scenery — near the waterfalls and the secret pools , in dells that laced the volcanic slopes , in the village market , in the main street of Anani . |
| 25 | He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . " |
| 26 | I told her over and over again , but she would n't listen . ’ |
| 27 | I 've told him over and over again that you simply ca n't these days . ’ |
| 28 | I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach . |
| 29 | A sudden surge of compassion washed through him , and when they reached the governor 's palace Joseph rashly thrust two piasters into the coolie 's cupped hands , thanking him over and over again in French . |
| 30 | She had told him over and over again the sequence of events on the boat . |