Example sentences of "over and over again " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , her body prompting her still , with no finality in her , turned her world over and over again in her mind 's restless fingers . |
| 2 | There are plenty of good coaches about just as there are a multitude of nice misguided types who seek to portray themselves through other people over and over again . |
| 3 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 4 | Rather than such force being seen as a prerogative of the state , it is seen by many in the alliance to inhere in the people of Ulster who over and over again need to assert their autonomous rights . |
| 5 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 6 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 7 | A single note repeated over and over again , throbbing in my head , making my chest tighten . |
| 8 | I went out and slammed the door behind me , turning the key in the lock as if I wanted to safeguard the proof of the crime and its only witnesses , repeating the same English phrase , over and over again , ‘ Just you wait and see . ’ |
| 9 | So how dare anyone criticise a true champion who has proved herself over and over again . |
| 10 | Burrows seems to have lived with his material for so long that he has forgotten to throw out enough clues for the rest of us , and there are few hints as to why certain sequences are so important that they should be repeated over and over again But what constantly saves the piece from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving nature of the central relationship and some patchy but startlingly lovely dance images . |
| 11 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 12 | The hot-air hand-drier was almost certainly invented by lawyers : instead of the quick , rough efficiency of a towel , you must stand there miming the washing of hands over and over again until the soap has been extracted from every last crevice . |
| 13 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 14 | He must then affirm this , over and over again , until he begins to believe it . |
| 15 | Over and over again initiatives towards ‘ Imperial union ’ had broken into spray against the rock . |
| 16 | The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections . |
| 17 | Adrian spent the next hour nursing his fist and repeating over and over and over again , I hit him , I hit him , at last I 've done something . |
| 18 | They told her over and over again that she must not do it , but she could n't help it . |
| 19 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 20 | To get in I and the friend who is taking me hammer and hammer on the door , shout over and over again in Bengali ‘ It 's us , it 's us , let us in ’ . |
| 21 | As this book has insisted over and over again , sport is to do with attitudes and values not just with exercise . |
| 22 | After the funeral Charles retreated to Balmoral , where he watched the BBC obituary of Mountbatten over and over again , and walked the lonely moors . |
| 23 | ‘ She was so young , ’ his mother had whispered over and over again , until he wanted to shout at her to stop , ‘ so young , and all her life before her . ’ |
| 24 | It is richly good to greet the real heroes of your youth — and once I was out of earshot I found myself skipping about merrily , humming ‘ Happy Birthday , Washy ’ over and over again . |
| 25 | But , with the near-unanimous support of the Tory backbenches , the Prime Minister insisted over and over again that it was ‘ perfectly in order ’ to send illegal immigrants home . |
| 26 | ‘ In a side street , not far from the burning Palace of Justice , yet out of the way , stood a man , sharply distinguished from the crowd , flailing his hands in the air and moaning over and over again : ‘ The files are burning ! |
| 27 | To have to sit in an office all day playing the same records — all of which are awful — over and over and over again — well , it 's not funny , is it ? |
| 28 | In fact , he realized , she had simply adopted the words other people must have said to her over and over again . |
| 29 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 30 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |