Example sentences of "[vb past] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the above can be rinsed out and used over and over again . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He muttered over and over again that he was stymied . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 8 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 9 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 10 | The car bucked and lunged against the flowered banks , shaking the two ofthem loose like dolls as it turned over and over . |
| 11 | Walking the half-mile to Chapel market , she turned over and over in her mind the many questions about the murder that remained unanswered . |
| 12 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 13 | That showed over and over again that on issues such as security of supply , reliability of delivery , documentation , handling of complaints , efficiency of ordering service , and in particular , communication , there were others who tried harder and did better . |
| 14 | A single note repeated over and over again , throbbing in my head , making my chest tighten . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , my lovey , ’ the old voice repeated over and over again , whispery with dismay . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But he just shook his head and backed away , and repeated over and over again , ‘ Stay away . |
| 24 | The two king-size beds are covered with a floral patterned fabric , the kind worked over and over in consumer tests to lead to the choice of the one that consistently causes the least offence . |
| 25 | Cuckoo ! it called over and over again . |
| 26 | ‘ Ho ! ’ he called over and over again . |
| 27 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 28 | Then came a new cry , which rather overshadowed my friends ' efforts : ‘ West Mids — Best Kids ! ’ chanted over and over by sixty or more voices . |
| 29 | But , with the near-unanimous support of the Tory backbenches , the Prime Minister insisted over and over again that it was ‘ perfectly in order ’ to send illegal immigrants home . |
| 30 | It rolled over and over several times , preening its paws . |