Example sentences of "[verb] over and over " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | OK , people can vent their frustrations … but its the same stuff being regurgitated over and over . |
| 2 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 3 | Stooks would blow down and be set up to blow over again and wet heavy sheaves might have to be stoked over and over again . |
| 4 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 5 | All of the above can be rinsed out and used over and over again . |
| 6 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 7 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 8 | ( Men find that they are able to be listed over and over again but that has n't been the experience of Helen Chadwick . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They insist over and over again that women 's supportiveness , for example , is a positive rather than a negative attribute . |
| 11 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 12 | He 'd heard over and over again how fast she 'd died . |
| 13 | I have attended many feminist seminars , workshops and group discussions about language , and there are certain folklinguistic assertions that I have heard over and over again from the ( nonlinguist ) women present . |
| 14 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 15 | The train was due to arrive at her destination at midday — which gave Fabia , free of any other occupation , ample time to go over and over again everything that had happened . |
| 16 | He goes over and over yeah . |
| 17 | It was a secret as dark as that couplet ( written in pencil on the back page of " First Lessons in English Grammar " ) read over and over and never to be spoken aloud : " Pee-Po-Bum-Shit-Piddle-Bugger-Damn " Keep out of the farmyard was all the grown-ups would say if she told , it 's not the place for little girls … |
| 18 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 19 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 20 | He was being turned over and over by the rush of water . |
| 21 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be wasteful for everyone to do the same team training over and over again . |
| 23 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 24 | Their doubts can be seen over and over again from their words . ’ |
| 25 | Fred Ashton is a mature choreographic genius , things of his like César Franck 's Variations , Nocturne and Dante Sonata just can not be written about , and have to be seen over and over again … |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll hang myself , ’ I used to mutter over and over again , or for a change I would stare at my shotgun and wonder at the sort of mess I could make of myself . |
| 28 | But one explanation that occurs over and over again , and merits closer study , relates to the Holocaust : ‘ It was this Nazi kind of thing … like the gas chambers and what Hitler did … |
| 29 | He muttered over and over again that he was stymied . |
| 30 | I kept hugging myself as I imagined over and over telling Marcus what I knew and reassuring him that it would n't make any difference to us . |