Example sentences of "again and [adv] until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hutt panicked and struck again and again and again until his defenceless victim fell to the floor . |
| 2 | Automatic re-dialling facilities , which try again and again until clear line is available , have simplified many services , including transmission of facsimiles . |
| 3 | She tried again and again until Jack grabbed his own . |
| 4 | Things like that do n't really bug me that much but I 'd do it again and again until it was perfect . |
| 5 | Sometimes he and Charlie would spend a Saturday afternoon playing a George Formby record again and again until they 'd got all the words of ‘ I 'm Leaning on a Lamppost ’ or ‘ Chinese Laundry Blues ’ . |
| 6 | She yelled at the top of her lungs , calling again and again until at last he heard her terrified screams . |
| 7 | The plan was basically simple , but they went over the details again and again until mutual satisfaction prevailed . |
| 8 | ‘ A lot of people thing they 're difficult people , but it 's more a case of them knowing what they want and doing it again and again until they get it right ’ . |
| 9 | The Sergeant stood fifty yards away from us and made us repeat those two lines again and again until our voices were hoarse ; as our singing got worse , he became more and more frustrated and threw stones at us . |
| 10 | He notes that Lawrence Olivier would repeat his lines again and again until he had so trained his tongue muscles to say them that he could perform effortlessly ( p. 154 ) . |
| 11 | Keeper was a big , strong dog , but she pulled him downstairs and hit him again and again until the dog was nearly blind . |
| 12 | He looked at the cigarette , almost burnt-out between nicotine-stained fingers , and stubbed it on his plate again and again until it was quite crumpled . |
| 13 | The game goes on and on , again and again until someone wins it . |