Example sentences of "[vb pp] over and over again " in BNC.
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| 1 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 2 | Stooks would blow down and be set up to blow over again and wet heavy sheaves might have to be stoked over and over again . |
| 3 | One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure . |
| 4 | ( Men find that they are able to be listed over and over again but that has n't been the experience of Helen Chadwick . ) |
| 5 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 6 | He 'd heard over and over again how fast she 'd died . |
| 7 | I have attended many feminist seminars , workshops and group discussions about language , and there are certain folklinguistic assertions that I have heard over and over again from the ( nonlinguist ) women present . |
| 8 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 9 | Their doubts can be seen over and over again from their words . ’ |
| 10 | Fred Ashton is a mature choreographic genius , things of his like César Franck 's Variations , Nocturne and Dante Sonata just can not be written about , and have to be seen over and over again … |
| 11 | ‘ She was so young , ’ his mother had whispered over and over again , until he wanted to shout at her to stop , ‘ so young , and all her life before her . ’ |
| 12 | It has been said over and over again that pupils need to gain confidence , and that confidence comes from success . |
| 13 | The arguments that were current in 1973 about our membership of the Community have been rehearsed over and over again today in the same vein . |
| 14 | Cullet can be used over and over again to make new products . |
| 15 | Many words which express mathematical ideas are used over and over again and it is important that they are used correctly , especially comparatives such as wider , longer , deeper , heavier , lighter , thicker and thinner . |
| 16 | So the rented coffin could be used over and over again . ’ |
| 17 | Taking the rather obvious theme of the mother and child , for example , this is used over and over again by artists , though each time it must be expressed or interpreted in an individual way . |
| 18 | Creating grids with desktop publishing software is a matter of moments with most of the good packages and , once created , they can be used over and over again without ever needing to be re-drawn . |
| 19 | Newspaper and magazine graphics are a classic example of this sort of art ; stock illustrations are used over and over again , weather maps for example , but each one is slightly modified from the previous . |
| 20 | The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again . |
| 21 | The works of Beethoven and Bach are full of similar constructions , and it is remarkable how certain basic rhythmic cells ( such as or ) are used over and over again in their music . |
| 22 | It is displayed ( Winckelmann affirms ) in the Laocoon group , that famous sculpture of the Trojan priest and his sons in the grip of the sea god 's serpents : and this example , certainly surprising , is used over and over again by subsequent theorists . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The five Scottish ‘ Techs ’ have shown over and over again that they can achieve the same high academic standards as our eight universities . |
| 24 | N G Os have shown over and over again that by working alongside a community they can help identify the barriers to development experienced by that community and they can support the community as it works to make social and economic progress . |
| 25 | The test-flight was postponed over and over again , as I hit a busy spell in work — and as usual the weather had its say in the proceedings . |
| 26 | This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life . |
| 27 | The same themes , the same subjects and poses are reinterpreted over and over again , often in some completely original way , but sometimes also in a manner reminiscent of a previous phase ; any novelty is eventually assimilated to what had preceded it ; nothing is ever discarded . |
| 28 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 29 | The tune was Jack be Nimble , Jack be Quick played over and over again on the ‘ cordion ’ . |
| 30 | Listening can be done in a classroom-type situation where you listen to a live language helper or to a tape recording which can be played over and over again . |