Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over and over again " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 3 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 4 | And we 've seen these cats over and over again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 12 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 13 | To survive is to dig into the pit of your own resources over and over again . |
| 14 | Same questions over and over again . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , oh there 's hundred 's of jobs want doing round here again , but you do the same ones over and over again and I think to myself what a waste of a day . |
| 20 | The Fisher Row community had few surnames and they used the same Christian names over and over again . |