Example sentences of "[verb] time and time again " in BNC.

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1 Such a development required a strong defence , and the point to which they referred time and time again was that ‘ modern conditions ’ made it imperative that education be structured into a coherent national system , with special attention being paid to working-class youth , not merely to trade classes for apprentices , but to the mass of young workers .
2 Mr Crangle tried time and time again to reason with the Headmaster , but their arguments just became louder and louder .
3 On the other hand , there is a general warm acceptance of the monarchy , which has been revealed time and time again by public opinion polls ( e.g. National Opinion Poll , 1986 ; Gallup , 1976 ; see surveys of polls in Harris , 1966 ; Norton , 1984 ; Ziegler , 1978 ) .
4 Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development .
5 Yeah , oh I know I 've said time and time again to them if you park up a bit , you know that house
6 It has to be said , however , that some people continue their addiction to death even while making repeated attempts to follow the principles of the Anonymous Fellowship , yet still relapsing time and time again .
7 It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus .
8 Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism .
9 Then in her mind she heard an echo of the words her teacher , a martial arts master , had used time and time again .
10 In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue .
11 This is a very simple philosophy but , in my experience , I have seen it work time and time again .
12 M. B. I am quite candidly of the opinion that I would have left the police out of a feeling of resentment because I was overlooked time and time again for inferior men .
13 But worse is the fact that the same accidents happen time and time again .
14 But however horrible the thought of lying sticky and crumpled , sleeping , or trying to , might be , the actual moment of departure is one I would gladly relive time and time again .
15 This method gives you something like a template for a graph , which you can use time and time again .
16 And do n't forget we 're told time and time again , almost ad nauseam , that this is to remain a public service within the National Health Service .
17 Most social workers who are in touch with the elderly disabled living alone hear the praises of their Home Helps sung time and time again : ‘ She 's like a daughter to me ’ , and ‘ I do n't know what I 'd do without her ’ .
18 In that long thin strip of middle England , with its old towns and charmless Birmingham commuter-belt estates , Tory canvassers heard time and time again that voters wanted to punish the government for the poll tax .
19 Cranston would drink himself silly , celebrating his triumph , and make Athelstan recount time and time again his great victory .
20 Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years .
21 SAVE believes , and has proved time and time again , that all types of historic buildings can have a new lease of life through conversion , offering potential and exciting challenges for developers and architects .
22 Many questions recur time and time again .
23 We believe this will encourage them to excel time and time again .
24 ‘ I tend to when the same story appears time and time again , ’ she retorted .
25 In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again .
26 Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years .
27 And on the other burning question that was asked time and time again — whether she will have more children — he said , digging an even deeper hole for himself :
28 What the NME fails to realise time and time again is that we whiteys have minds and therefore opinions and views of our own .
29 The word ‘ community ’ appeared time and time again in discussion with people in Dunrossness .
30 It had happened time and time again , and the Trotskyist answer was ‘ democratic centralism ’ , an authoritarian form of discipline by which anybody suspected of a sell-out was expelled , keeping the organization pure .
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