Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and again [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath . |
| 2 | She had become tougher on Creggan , saying that he must use what little space there was in his cage to practise flight — turning , wheeling , lifting himself again and again and again … for she said that the day might come when he would need those skills . |
| 3 | She set off down the slope , forcing herself not to run , telling herself again and again that it was all right ; that her fears were unfounded . |
| 4 | But Paddy mentions her now and again when he 's writin' . |
| 5 | Keeper was a big , strong dog , but she pulled him downstairs and hit him again and again until the dog was nearly blind . |
| 6 | He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged , for by himself he can not help himself without belying the truth . |
| 7 | Oh , the doctors and nurses had assured her again and again that she was fine and would soon be fit and well again . |
| 8 | As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again . |
| 9 | He kissed her again and again and when her arms came up and tangled in his hair , when she kissed him as he was kissing her , she felt his hands search and roam , slipping inside her gown , caressing each breast , teasing , arousing , until the nipples rose hard and firm . |
| 10 | He spoke about her again and again as we walked home . |
| 11 | That first night , after the shock had begun to abate , the vision of Benedict 's snarling features , the sound of molten rage in his voice , had come back to her again and again as she lay in her narrow cot bed , and she had wept . |
| 12 | For the first few months I was just having it now and again and then I was having a bit more . |
| 13 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 14 | Things like that do n't really bug me that much but I 'd do it again and again until it was perfect . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of people thing they 're difficult people , but it 's more a case of them knowing what they want and doing it again and again until they get it right ’ . |
| 16 | And when she heard Gloria outside rattling the hen-house door , she screamed it again and again till Gloria managed to get the latch undone and came in and dragged her yelling through the droppings and feathers and washed her face under the water pump and dried it on her hanky . |
| 17 | Nothing would ever have induced them to chase a ball , but Buster did it again and again as though he would never tire of it . |
| 18 | looking at it again and again and again . |
| 19 | and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ? |
| 20 | The skills come through doing it again and again and again , by sending them off , by getting a feeling for it , by practising . |
| 21 | One of the other things , of course , we 've got to always bear in mind when we und , try to understand the parables of Jesus is that you can not , and Jesus never meant for us , to find us u our , you know a parallel for every single little detail , the for for the colour of this , or the colour of that , or th the shape of something else , he did n't expect us and did n't mean for us to find out a pa a a parallel , a meaning for every single detail because otherwise you 're gon na be contradicting yourself again and again but what we must see is , what is the main basic truth that Jesus is teaching here ? |
| 22 | I told myself again and again that he loved me and that was what counted . |