Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over and over again " 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 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Handling some paperwork over and over again |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 7 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 8 | She went over to the sink and splashed her face with cold water over and over again . |
| 9 | And we 've seen these cats over and over again . |
| 10 | A check list will enable you to listen to those words over and over again in a controlled environment , and you will be able to make up your mind as to what symbol(s) you want to use for it/them from then on . |
| 11 | Legions of lost souls have taken to congregating at a popular local hostelry , the Throat and Razor , repeating those very words over and over again , till the tears run down their sunburned legs . |
| 12 | So he gives Jeremiah the same devastating message over and over again , with different emphases and with different targets . |
| 13 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 14 | He used that phraseology over and over again . |
| 15 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 16 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 17 | Serpell suggests that the parrots are trying to startle their rivals with these varied displays , Switching between a large number of gestures in an unpredictable way may be more intimidating than repeating a few cliched movements over and over again . |
| 18 | she asks the same question over and over again . |
| 19 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 20 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 21 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 22 | To survive is to dig into the pit of your own resources over and over again . |
| 23 | Same questions over and over again . |
| 24 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 25 | Mothers often say that they say the same things over and over again and end up losing their tempers in order to get a response . |
| 26 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 27 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 28 | You write the same poem over and over again and tell us what you 're no longer going to do . |
| 29 | had several hours and getting bored with the same answer over and over again ! |
| 30 | 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 . |