Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] again [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sit down again for a minute .
2 Sit down again for a while . ’
3 They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees .
4 Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams .
5 ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat .
6 It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo .
7 Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged .
8 But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late .
9 As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone .
10 There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath .
11 Critical discourse might have been given more space , especially in the context of the brief discussion of " canon " , but it is well handled in the earlier volume by Durant and Fabb , so can be picked up again in a course which focuses more clearly on literary texts using that book .
12 Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle .
13 The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms .
14 South West bounced back again with a try from Jeremy Guscott and completed their triumph with a Jon Webb penalty .
15 Chasing him , she had rapidly lost her bearings in the heavy forest terrain and only by accident had come out again behind the house into the vegetable garden .
16 The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture .
17 Then the corridor bent to the side to accommodate four enclosed double bedrooms and bent back again through the centre of open seating with sleeping curtains , called sections .
18 And of the four who had climbed into the stockade , only one was not wounded , and he was climbing out again with the fear of death in him .
19 But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow .
20 He leapt up the steps , grabbed his valise and hastened down again to the truck .
21 He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’
22 Lili came down again in a black jersey frock and fresh lipstick and carrying the scent of some strange perfume .
23 Usually everyone left the house around the same time ; she liked to have the table cleared before she closed the door behind her , so the place looked respectable when they came in again in the evenings .
24 They began to set the table , growing relaxed and easy , enjoying the formality of the room , when Moran came in again from the fields .
25 The questions rose to a clamour , but no-one stood in the way as Sergeant Bird smoothly drove off again with a regretful shake of his head .
26 And finally to complete this particular picture , picking up again on a theme that was introduced earlier on , we are using proprietary relational database technology , so there are many other tools which are available to you , for example the ability of Lotus One Two Three to go directly into the database , pull information out , present it in a spreadsheet , present it graphically .
27 ‘ I put £17 of fuel in , went to Windsor and back , used the car every day , and filled up again after the New Year .
28 He woke up again in the middle of the night and
29 ‘ Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ’
30 The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced .
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