Example sentences of "[noun pl] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 2 | 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 … " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Joy was now standing , reading the two signs over and over . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He practised his lines over and over again inside his head until his lips began to move as he repeated them . |
| 14 | He always repeats certain phrases over and over . |
| 15 | " They filled their mission tins over and over with money they collected from selling fruit and vegetables from garden , eggs from their hens , and jams and preserves made from their own grapes and citrus fruit . " |
| 16 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 17 | To survive is to dig into the pit of your own resources over and over again . |
| 18 | As Van Cheele walked along , he turned the questions over and over in his head . |
| 19 | Same questions over and over again . |
| 20 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 21 | At first you 'd think they were just looking but really they were turning things over and over in their hands to see how they were made and checking out the cut so they could rip them off . |
| 22 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 23 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 24 | Mothers often say that they say the same things over and over again and end up losing their tempers in order to get a response . |
| 25 | Laidlaw had tacked his brains over and over but he could n't place the name . |
| 26 | And we 've seen these cats over and over again . |
| 27 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 28 | The Fisher Row community had few surnames and they used the same Christian names over and over again . |
| 29 | In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again . |
| 30 | The hot-air hand-drier was almost certainly invented by lawyers : instead of the quick , rough efficiency of a towel , you must stand there miming the washing of hands over and over again until the soap has been extracted from every last crevice . |