Example sentences of "and again " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He approves of the mingling of the peoples and their bonds of union ’ : that was what the words meant , and again they were very old words , from the days of ancient Rome . |
| 2 | Yet every now and again a student emerges who shows exceptional talent and it is quite natural that a drama school will make sure that his/her ability is given a good stretch in public with a major role , perhaps playing Hamlet or Hedda Gabler . |
| 3 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 4 | And again the swift advance . |
| 5 | The nights in the room were false and useless and meaningless and the nights walking the city were false and useless and meaningless , the notes for the box were false and useless and meaningless and this freewheeling account of the progress of the glass is false and useless and meaningless , late and doubly late and unaware of its lateness , nothing and again nothing and worse than nothing . |
| 6 | Father 's complained again and again . ’ |
| 7 | Happily ( and daisy flowers always make me feel happy ) the same arrangement and connotations may be reproduced again and again in the garden by planting a selection of daisy relatives and look-alikes . |
| 8 | An expressed desire for rigidly determined geographical units separated from a despised neighbour occurs again and again in my fieldnotes , and is clearly illustrated in a note made in 1981 , when a superintendent in a somewhat remote subdivision laughingly told me : |
| 9 | ’ . The police obsession with hair returns again and again in my fieldnotes . |
| 10 | She fucked him with enthusiasm , they laughed , they did it again and again — on and off for years . |
| 11 | And she recalled her favourite Hans Andersen fairytale , the one that had brought her time and again to tears . |
| 12 | Ring Brian again and again for the relief of talking to someone in this Lucyless silent world , engaged , engaged , engaged . |
| 13 | You had to tell yourself , again and again , that there were links between all the little homes , filaments that tensed and hummed with power when the time came . |
| 14 | And again . |
| 15 | And again dismissal certainly will not help them overcome their alcohol problem . |
| 16 | George Hatfield , who runs the production turning course at Sydney Technical College in Australia , will again be setting the competition , and again we will be asking entrants to submit two pieces . |
| 17 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 18 | This type of device is repeated again and again in other works whose music contains similar passages . |
| 19 | Stravinsky used similar ideas in his score for Petrushka and again provided an underlying rhythmic pulse to represent the incessant throb of the engines in the fairground and the general noise of the excited crowd . |
| 20 | Ribbons appear again and again , ultimately in the maypole dance , before they disappear in a flutter of rose petals when Mother Simone relents and blesses the happy couple . |
| 21 | It is possibly the spaciousness of design that brings audiences again and again to Ashton 's Symphonic Variations and Monotones , whose straighter and continuously moving lines require the dancers to draw them calmly and to fill the stage generously with movement . |
| 22 | She sighs , pauses , then in and out goes the needle again and again . |
| 23 | The footwork appears again and again in different enchaînements during their other appearances , notably in the short solo for Mercutio when he dances in a more tragic vein just before he dies . |
| 24 | Certain steps , poses and gestures are bound to recur because tradition has demonstrated time and again that technically there are certain sure ways of giving the design dimension , variety and texture . |
| 25 | For all their liveliness of style any of the above national dances seen in one ballet resemble those in another because choreographers such as Petipa , Bournonville and Saint-Léon utilised the same steps and ports de bras again and again . |
| 26 | And again this is the way of The Possessed rather than Crime and Punishment . |
| 27 | Again and again the murder of Lizaveta is ignored . |
| 28 | Second , it discredits those — and again the Soviet editor is among them — who seek to explain Dostoevsky 's failure to reinstate ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ solely by the prevailing conditions of censorship . |
| 29 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 30 | Again and again he seems to be in and yet dubiously of the party . |