Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] over and over " in BNC.

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1 As far as she was concerned , she told me over and over again , we were responsible for Dennis 's death .
2 ‘ Oh , I love , I love , ’ she told me over and over , ‘ I put nothing in my letters to you .
3 Yes in fact , to be perfectly honest with you the relationship is a bit more than she wants Ron is a bit of a pain I told him over and over again not to push his luck , I said for goodness sake , Ron , be grateful for what you 've got apparently she does n't like to make love with the lights on I said well if that 's what she does n't like that 's what she does n't like , you 're not going to change a woman of sixty eight !
4 They told her over and over again that she must not do it , but she could n't help it .
5 I told her over and over again , but she would n't listen . ’
6 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 .
7 Sir George put the letters into his wife 's lap , and she turned them over and over , under the greedy eyes of the two scholars .
8 Masklin picked the Thing up and turned it over and over in his hands .
9 She turned it over and over in her hands .
10 Bishop pulled the crystal that the Doctor had left in the simularity reader free and turned it over and over in his hands .
11 They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me .
12 James and his wife Mabel , 64 , taped Saturday 's night 's race and watched it over and over again until 4am yesterday , with daughters Anita , 24 , and Anna , 25 .
13 When Ferrar received it he read it over and over and kissed and embraced it , saying that he could not sufficiently admire it as a rich jewel , and most worthy to be in the hands and hearts of all true Christians that feared God and loved the Church of England .
14 Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound .
15 She said it over and over .
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