Example sentences of "[adv] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is what , ten to fifteen percent is successful , sometimes they have to go and have the thing done all over and over again . |
| 2 | I DO NOT intend to deal with the Bodyline tour in detail ; cricket buffs have read it all over and over again in 50 or more books and studies about the affair . |
| 3 | A single case of her own books had survived and it was a haphazard collection , containing Winnie the Pooh and the Dr Dolittle books , which she found herself reading nostalgically over and over again . |
| 4 | The guilt that girls feel about eating , being fat , or about their bodies in general , and in particular their guilt about what they think of as their ‘ vanity ’ if they are obsessed with their bodies , came up over and over again . |
| 5 | We do n't start bringing it all up over and over . ’ |
| 6 | The same designers — Phillippe Starck of France , Javier Mariscal of Spain and the American Kenneth Graves — crop up over and over again . |
| 7 | And Romano de Sciorto 's name kept cropping up over and over , this fun , fearless and courageous friend , who was helping her to live her life to the full … |
| 8 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 9 | The problem , as we point out over and over again , is not the resources themselves , but the way they are distributed . |
| 10 | Pilots played poker and bridge endlessly and with a furious concentration , while in the background a gramophone wheezed out over and over again a well-worn recording of Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle ? and the Squadron 's mascot , a young lion cub called Whiskey , prowled amiably about the mess . |
| 11 | The fog came back over and over again that late autumn and early winter , and the dark days before Christmas that year were very dark indeed . |
| 12 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 13 | In Barat et Haimet the sexual innuendo of Barat approaching Marie 's bed in the dark , and successfully imitating her husband , Travers , is difficult to miss , and since we may know that bacon , the term generally used for the meat that is stolen and stolen back over and over again , can also be used of a girl 's thighs , there is a strong suggestion that the actions are really a sexual allegory : is it Marie that the three men are trying to appropriate ? |
| 14 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 15 | Had he envied Kalv , turning his coat so adroitly over and over , and at least buying back some years at Egge ? |
| 16 | Yet over and over again , one finds that the application to problems in old age has to be made , that prevailing attitudes have discouraged appropriate and sensitive appraisal of the intergenerational or marital dynamics , and of the emotional reactions of carers , which can lead to abuse . |
| 17 | Incomes policies were seen as crucial to help solve our problems , yet over and over again governments found that political pressures made these very difficult to sustain for any length of time . |