Example sentences of "the same [noun] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | You write the same poem over and over again and tell us what you 're no longer going to do . |
| 2 | Er it 's very hard to keep on forgiving somebody for hurting you in the same way over and over again and in this particular example , three times and that 's it . |
| 3 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 4 | It seems you keep having to hold the same conversation over and over again . |
| 5 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 6 | she asks the same question over and over again . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 15 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 16 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 17 | You 're learning the same information over and over again , this lot you 're learning the whole lot once it 's it 's as though every time you learned a word , you had to learn your alphabet all over again |
| 18 | had several hours and getting bored with the same answer over and over again ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It really is not necessary to get bored with eating the same foods over and over during the next four weeks . |
| 23 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 24 | Every lesson he repeated the same thing over and over again . |
| 25 | And it 's the same thing over and over again . ’ |
| 26 | What would turn me either to stone or to desperation would be the boredom of hearing the same thing over and over again . |
| 27 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 28 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 29 | You know yeah may be may be and it is difficult situations do it but I think some of the problem comes in that it 's very difficult for us to stick with the point and hear ourselves say the same thing over and over again because it does n't feel right how many how many of you did n't feel right doing doing what you were doing ? |
| 30 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |