Example sentences of "[noun] over and over again " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I can just use these books over and over again . |
| 2 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 3 | 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 … " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Time was repetition of the same words over and over again was called lines and constituted a punishment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again . |
| 9 | Listen to the whole text over and over again . |
| 10 | After the funeral Charles retreated to Balmoral , where he watched the BBC obituary of Mountbatten over and over again , and walked the lonely moors . |
| 11 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |
| 14 | But her imagination continued to torment her , replaying this last scene over and over again , as if trying to force her into admitting that the only person in her life who really cared about her might be dead . |
| 15 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 18 | He practised his lines over and over again inside his head until his lips began to move as he repeated them . |
| 19 | she asks the same question over and over again . |
| 20 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 21 | But of course it is nice to come back to the same places over and over again , sort of er see friendly faces . |
| 22 | Such qualities of judgement and personal courage over and over again inspired those of us who had the privilege to work closely him — his intense concern for human rights and his determination to take Amnesty 's campaign right to the doorstep of the perpetrators . |
| 23 | To survive is to dig into the pit of your own resources over and over again . |
| 24 | She went over to the sink and splashed her face with cold water over and over again . |
| 25 | Same questions over and over again . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're layering guitars onto a track , it 's not good to layer a Gibson through a Vox over and over again . |
| 27 | He repeated his stepfather 's name over and over again to no avail . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |