Example sentences of "and [adv prt] again [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success now was of the kind associated with Henry Pelham , who during his time at the Treasury from 1749 to 1757 rescheduled almost 90 per cent of the 4 per cent debt , down to 3.5 per cent in 1750 and down again to 3 per cent by 1757 . |
| 2 | Creating grids with desktop publishing software is a matter of moments with most of the good packages and , once created , they can be used over and over again without ever needing to be re-drawn . |
| 3 | A RAPIST forced his victim to chant ‘ yes son ’ over and over again during a two-hour ordeal yesterday . |
| 4 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 5 | We have agonized over and over again about our relatively small oil business . |
| 6 | ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The tune was Jack be Nimble , Jack be Quick played over and over again on the ‘ cordion ’ . |
| 9 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 10 | Once off you walk over the mountains to the next town , and over again to another . |
| 11 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 12 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 13 | He repeated his stepfather 's name over and over again to no avail . |
| 14 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 15 | He asked Neil Kinnock about his plans to tax the middle-income bracket not once , not twice , but over and over again for an hour . |
| 16 | You may throw cells together at random , over and over again for a billion years , and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs , or does anything , even badly , that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive . |
| 17 | It 's part of the this way in which the computer can turn information over and over again for a different need . |
| 18 | It 's part of this way in which the computer can turn information over and over again for a different need . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 21 | Something high in a tree clinked sharply , over and over again like a coin thrown into a metal dish . |
| 22 | ‘ She kept repeating it over and and over again like a robot . ’ |
| 23 | He practised his lines over and over again inside his head until his lips began to move as he repeated them . |
| 24 | She , her body prompting her still , with no finality in her , turned her world over and over again in her mind 's restless fingers . |
| 25 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 26 | To get in I and the friend who is taking me hammer and hammer on the door , shout over and over again in Bengali ‘ It 's us , it 's us , let us in ’ . |
| 27 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 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 | These examples of patterns of discipline — different parental approaches to good and naughty behaviour — if repeated over and over again in different situations will lead to either a badly behaved ( disobedient ) child or a reasonably compliant youngster . |
| 30 | I 'd say it over and over again in my schoolgirl French . |