Example sentences of "to [pron] again [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So is it agreed the clerk write to them again about all the ones we 've listed ?
2 It is far easier to buy some extra flowers or to pick an additional bunch from your garden , than to explain to someone that you would like to take some of your gift home with you in order to give it back to them again at a later date !
3 Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway .
4 These points will be raised throughout this book , and we will return to them again in chapter 6 .
5 He takes a long draw on the J , while I sit there thinking , Oh shit , then he hands the number back to me again with a big grin on his face .
6 It does n't have to sound confrontational ; contrast ‘ I do n't understand what you 're talking about ’ ( sub-text : ‘ you are inept at talking ’ ) with ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm so dim [ mock disclosure — and quite appropriate in my opinion , given the indirect nature of conversation ] , but could you explain that to me again in plain English ? ’ ( sub-text : ‘ I 'm not understanding you , so can you say it differently ? ’ )
7 ‘ But even then Fabien never spoke to me again in his lifetime .
8 ‘ I will speak to you again of this . ’
9 At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I was asked to write to you again about this and to suggest that you come and assess the situation on site with a view to arranging for a footway to be constructed .
10 I never want to talk to you again about anything else but work . ’
11 ‘ I will speak to you again in a moment , Madame .
12 We shall be writing to you again around August 1989 to ask you whether you would prefer to be excluded .
13 In that race , he defeated Romany King , runner-up to him again on Saturday at Aintree .
14 His hands jerked her to him again as a group of jugglers pushed past , their clubs digging into her back so that she was forced to catch Lucenzo 's shoulders and lean hard against him , totally at his mercy .
15 Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands .
16 A child rated as ‘ attached ’ to its mother at nine months ( crying when she leaves the room , for example ) may express its attachment to her again at 18 months but through a quite different behavioural repertoire ( leaving mother but repeatedly checking back ) .
17 I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week .
18 He raised his head and smiled to her again in a curious way , his eyes seeming to be laughing at her .
19 She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny .
20 It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second .
21 Twice more , on 24 February and 21 March 1943 , Hitler repeated his threat that the war would bring about the extermination of Jewry , and came back to it again in one final reference — which produced ‘ lively applause ’ — during an address to generals and officers at Berchtesgaden on 26 May 1944 .
22 He had long ago got the whole business of Ecalpemos under tight control and lived in high hopes of never having to refer to it again in word or thought — and then there had appeared this paragraph .
23 I will return to it again in Chapter 8 .
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