Example sentences of "[noun] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wept and spoke at the same time — uttering fragments of sentences , half completed threats , pieces of swear words , repeating the name Richard over and over with the intonation of a child calling for its mother . |
| 2 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 3 | And he would walk away muttering the names Endill and Edward over and over to himself . |
| 4 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 5 | There was a psalm he wanted to say before he went , but he could only remember the beginning of it , so he repeated the words over and over again : " Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee , O Lord : Lord hear my voice … " |
| 6 | I was an utter martinette about his pronunciation ( he did n't know when I did n't know ) and would make him happily furious insisting that he repeat words over and over again until I was content . |
| 7 | A check list will enable you to listen to those words over and over again in a controlled environment , and you will be able to make up your mind as to what symbol(s) you want to use for it/them from then on . |
| 8 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 9 | Legions of lost souls have taken to congregating at a popular local hostelry , the Throat and Razor , repeating those very words over and over again , till the tears run down their sunburned legs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again . |
| 12 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 13 | But he turned her story over and over in his mind all afternoon . |
| 14 | In our particular ministry in St Louis Missouri we are trying to use the vast technology that 's available to us in linking up with other organizations such as Catholic charities , Salvation Army and others , so that when persons are in need of help they can go to one organization and tell their story and they do n't have to keep going from place to place telling their story over and over and we 're beginning to look toward the use of computers and what they are capable of doing in order to help resources stretch . |
| 15 | Joy was now standing , reading the two signs over and over . |
| 16 | I tried the latch over and over and looked at my watch . |
| 17 | The previous day he had had to drive the route over and over until he knew it perfectly . |
| 18 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 19 | Listen to the whole text over and over again . |
| 20 | After the funeral Charles retreated to Balmoral , where he watched the BBC obituary of Mountbatten over and over again , and walked the lonely moors . |
| 21 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 22 | Serpell suggests that the parrots are trying to startle their rivals with these varied displays , Switching between a large number of gestures in an unpredictable way may be more intimidating than repeating a few cliched movements over and over again . |
| 23 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 24 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |
| 25 | But her imagination continued to torment her , replaying this last scene over and over again , as if trying to force her into admitting that the only person in her life who really cared about her might be dead . |
| 26 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 27 | The younger actor wanted to rehearse one particular gruelling scene over and over which the ailing Olivier endured until , too ill to go on , he had to give up , complaining , ‘ Why ca n't the boy just act ? |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 30 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |