Example sentences of "repeat over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that , quite understandably , we all tend to stick to the tried and true and therefore repeat over and over again the same skills . |
| 2 | A single note repeated over and over again , throbbing in my head , making my chest tighten . |
| 3 | A diet that involves uncommon foods or drinks , or the same things repeated over and over again , is not a basis for long-term success . |
| 4 | A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over . |
| 5 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 6 | The likes of ‘ Live Life Death Die ’ and ‘ Creatures Of Craze ’ do n't need standard lyrical formats — streams of juxtaposed words more than suffice , and the final title track is a knife-twisting attack that hits the music industry where it hurts , climaxing with an anguished ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ repeated over and over like some unrelenting battle cry . |
| 7 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 8 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , my lovey , ’ the old voice repeated over and over again , whispery with dismay . |
| 10 | In fact they were partial letters of rubescent neon repeated over and over again that blinked past too quickly to separate each one from the next fragment . |
| 11 | But he just shook his head and backed away , and repeated over and over again , ‘ Stay away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In these songs , the great variety of cries and moans are repeated over and over in ordered patterns built around a basic unit or syllable that is equivalent to a note in our music . |
| 14 | In an interview with William Hardcastle on BBC Radio 4 's ‘ The World This Weekend ’ , the text of which was published in the Irish News on 7 October , Craig introduced two themes which were to be repeated over and over during the next few days . |
| 15 | These examples of patterns of discipline — different parental approaches to good and naughty behaviour — if repeated over and over again in different situations will lead to either a badly behaved ( disobedient ) child or a reasonably compliant youngster . |
| 16 | This process is repeated over and over again in relation to major and minor events throughout the family life-cycle . |
| 17 | Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening . |
| 18 | Invention flagged and a handful of traditional designs was repeated over and over again . |
| 19 | This pattern of good fortune , on a market that kept on rising , would be repeated over and over . |
| 20 | Consequently the chants seldom seem banal or trivial , in spite of being repeated over and over again . |
| 21 | Repeated over and over again . |
| 22 | A simple melodic theme is repeated over and over again , transmuting itself by a slow and subtle alchemy into something which is not quite as it was before . |
| 23 | The names of many people are recorded on documents signed at Halling and these names are repeated over and over again by the historians . |
| 24 | When he was handed the fags he could hardly believe his luck , he smiled broadly , revealing rows of black and yellow teeth , repeating over and over , ‘ Merci , merci . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sally was stunned and kept repeating over and over again , ‘ She did n't want to go out — she knew it would happen ’ . |
| 27 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 28 | Nick , who met Rachel at a disco when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl , said : ‘ Even the day after , she was still repeating over and over again that the world was going to end . |
| 29 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 30 | The delicate fabrics of Christian Lacroix had been put aside , and all Texas society emerged in jeans , plaid shirts and in big hats , in blue frilly blouses and canvas skirts , repeating over and over again : ‘ You see ! |