Example sentences of "[noun sg] over and over again " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would draw the same figure over and over again , trying to get what he wanted . |
| 2 | What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again . |
| 3 | Listen to the whole text over and over again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They rehearsed the scene over and over again and as they repeated it Willie believed more than ever that he was the old man . |
| 8 | she asks the same question over and over again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She went over to the sink and splashed her face with cold water over and over again . |
| 11 | He repeated his stepfather 's name over and over again to no avail . |
| 12 | Colin Clarke , Martin Kuhl and Alan McLoughlin wasted six scoring chances between them at Highbury , and Mr Smith said : ‘ I 've watched the match video over and over again and realised how many chances we missed . |
| 13 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 14 | He wished it were Perdita at the end of the rope , he 'd like to see her crashing to the ground over and over again . |
| 15 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 16 | If necessary use the ‘ broken record technique ’ — repeating the core message over and over again . |
| 17 | So he gives Jeremiah the same devastating message over and over again , with different emphases and with different targets . |
| 18 | I took her by both hands and I started to swing her in a circle , singing as I went , shouting the words of the song over and over again . |
| 19 | We have been to clubs , those dancing tornedoes , those ricocheting bodies under mad silver strobes , those siren samples , those scratch mixes , ‘ CAN YOU FEEL IT ? ! ’ crying over and over again . |
| 20 | Now , as I read our poem over and over again , I longed to see him , to share it with him , to show him I still loved him , however impossible my love might be . |
| 21 | And he had read the poem over and over again , though he knew it well . |
| 22 | You write the same poem over and over again and tell us what you 're no longer going to do . |
| 23 | I stood amid a gaggle of laughing students in frozen silence , and read the list over and over again . |
| 24 | Every lesson he repeated the same thing over and over again . |
| 25 | And it 's the same thing over and over again . ’ |
| 26 | What would turn me either to stone or to desperation would be the boredom of hearing the same thing over and over again . |
| 27 | In any case , if one insists on anthropomorphizing the gene , it behaves not selfishly but in utter disregard of its own interests , either doing the same thing over and over again or , by mutation , doing something else quite arbitrarily , and passively allowing itself to be favoured or eliminated by natural selection . |
| 28 | Or you may sort of erm people who you do the same thing over and over again , the same sort of job , would you not agree a little bit of complacency can set in and erm things do n't perhaps come over quite as they should ? |
| 29 | You know yeah may be may be and it is difficult situations do it but I think some of the problem comes in that it 's very difficult for us to stick with the point and hear ourselves say the same thing over and over again because it does n't feel right how many how many of you did n't feel right doing doing what you were doing ? |
| 30 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |