Example sentences of "and again [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fretting , he looked again and again at his watch . |
| 2 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 3 | Even when he was writing of other things , there steals again and again into his verse the sea , the estuary , the fiat Suffolk coast , local meannesses , and an odour of brine and dirt — tempered occasionally with the scent of flowers . |
| 4 | There was one noise he kept hearing again and again on his travels that intrigued him . |
| 5 | He felt the blade of the open razor scrape against the back of his neck and again on his forehead . |
| 6 | He threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 7 | Felix threw me to the ground and hit me again and again with his heavy stick . |
| 8 | Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become . |
| 9 | He would have been glad to talk , if only to escape the profitless treadmill of his thoughts — impressions rather than thoughts , random images which presented themselves again and again to his mind ! |
| 10 | The extreme reductionist approach that is represented in the above quotation , and is apparent again and again in his writings , not only in The Origin of Species but in many of his later books , is conspicuous by its absence from early plant ecological texts and is barely represented in the ecological literature until towards the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Again and again in his wartime lectures , he stressed the need in poetry for a " common style " , a " common language of the people " , " the attempt to reflect " the changing language of common intercourse " . |
| 12 | Even one of the more conservative of Willaert 's disciples , Andrea Gabrieli ( c. 1515–1586 ) , expressly mentions the use of instruments ( ‘ tum viva Voce , tum omnis generis Instrumentis ’ ) in his Sacrae cantiones ( 1565 ) and again in his Penitential Psalms ( 1583 ) . |
| 13 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 14 | He heard Izz 's words again and again in his head : She would have laid down her life for you . |
| 15 | Angry , frustrated , humiliated — all the usual emotions experienced time and again in his presence . |
| 16 | Again and again in his work , Archbishop Wulfstan condemns injustice and urges justice . |
| 17 | And he returned to the event again and again in his works . |
| 18 | It had to be learnt time and again by his descendants throughout the succeeding twenty centuries . |