Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 2 | These religious ethical teachings are surrounded by sacrality , and they have to be reiterated in this way over and over again because nothing runs so counter to man than to love his neighbour , including his enemies . |
| 3 | Handling some paperwork over and over again |
| 4 | Such qualities of judgement and personal courage over and over again inspired those of us who had the privilege to work closely him — his intense concern for human rights and his determination to take Amnesty 's campaign right to the doorstep of the perpetrators . |
| 5 | She went over to the sink and splashed her face with cold water over and over again . |
| 6 | It repeated the same three-note phrase over and over , and Montaine caught the little tune and sang it back . ’ |
| 7 | Its function is more directly linked to consumption , which it promotes by shattering the imaginary possibility over and over , repeatedly reopening the gap of desire . |
| 8 | So he gives Jeremiah the same devastating message over and over again , with different emphases and with different targets . |
| 9 | The younger actor wanted to rehearse one particular gruelling scene over and over which the ailing Olivier endured until , too ill to go on , he had to give up , complaining , ‘ Why ca n't the boy just act ? |
| 10 | He used that phraseology over and over again . |
| 11 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 12 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 13 | she asks the same question over and over again . |
| 14 | ‘ Why , ’ said Flora , in the dead and hopeless tone of one who has uttered a particular , heartfelt question over and over , to no avail , ‘ why does school have to be so horrible ? ’ |
| 15 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 16 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 17 | You write the same poem over and over again and tell us what you 're no longer going to do . |
| 18 | had several hours and getting bored with the same answer over and over again ! |
| 19 | The laughter that greeted this remark was interrupted by her husband protesting that novelists were just as bad , writing the same book over and over again . |
| 20 | You 're learning the same information over and over again , this lot you 're learning the whole lot once it 's it 's as though every time you learned a word , you had to learn your alphabet all over again |
| 21 | Every lesson he repeated the same thing over and over again . |
| 22 | And it 's the same thing over and over again . ’ |
| 23 | What would turn me either to stone or to desperation would be the boredom of hearing the same thing over and over again . |
| 24 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 25 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 26 | You know yeah may be may be and it is difficult situations do it but I think some of the problem comes in that it 's very difficult for us to stick with the point and hear ourselves say the same thing over and over again because it does n't feel right how many how many of you did n't feel right doing doing what you were doing ? |
| 27 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 28 | No , it 's erm because you , do the same thing over and over again that you find and no have n't got big lots of er , when you went to the small amount of the town . |
| 29 | And it was it 's the same thing over and over and over again . |
| 30 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |