Example sentences of "over and over in [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two women in the sombre , fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House ; Matthew Choak , trying his uncle 's chair for size ; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora 's box ; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame ; the clothing , some of it blood-stained , spread out on tables in the police station . |
| 2 | The word repeated itself over and over in her head like a death knell . |
| 3 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 4 | She turned it over and over in her hands . |
| 5 | Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology . |
| 6 | Walking the half-mile to Chapel market , she turned over and over in her mind the many questions about the murder that remained unanswered . |
| 7 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 8 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 9 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 10 | I 've turned it over and over in my mind , and it seems to me — I ne'er told the lad this , lovey — but it seems to me she waited till she 'd borne my Jake a son in his own image , as if she knew that 'd grieve him as nothing else could . |
| 11 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 12 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 13 | As Van Cheele walked along , he turned the questions over and over in his head . |
| 14 | Then I am standing in Aisha 's house with its Moroccan furniture and Moroccan smell , hardly able to believe that I 'm in London , having braved the customs official who turned my passport over and over in his hands . |
| 15 | Masklin picked the Thing up and turned it over and over in his hands . |
| 16 | Ruth let him take it , and sat drinking her tea while he turned the cup over and over in his hands , gently and half absentmindedly . |
| 17 | Bishop pulled the crystal that the Doctor had left in the simularity reader free and turned it over and over in his hands . |
| 18 | The lawyer turned the envelope over and over in his hands before he opened it . |
| 19 | He listened , turning over and over in his hands a black wooden paper-knife with a carved African head on it . |
| 20 | For , ever since , he had been turning the name over and over in his mind , puzzling over its slight familiarity . |
| 21 | But he turned her story over and over in his mind all afternoon . |
| 22 | He turned what little they had discovered over and over in his mind . |
| 23 | He kept seeing them over and over in his mind , like an action replay of a not very good football match that only showed the goals . |
| 24 | During the interminable journey Edward turned what he knew of the affair over and over in his mind , and wondered if it could possibly , really , happen . |