Example sentences of "again [coord] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be good to see old England again and even if I did n't find her I could tell myself I 'd just tried that little bit . |
| 2 | It will inevitably happen for some that Housman 's Horace is not the reader 's Horace , and that readers will grumble and go in search of more and later Englishings — for it seems we must " English " this poet again and again if we are to keep up with him where he stands still , at the end of the first century BC . |
| 3 | Hutt panicked and struck again and again and again until his defenceless victim fell to the floor . |
| 4 | Automatic re-dialling facilities , which try again and again until clear line is available , have simplified many services , including transmission of facsimiles . |
| 5 | She tried again and again until Jack grabbed his own . |
| 6 | Things like that do n't really bug me that much but I 'd do it again and again until it was perfect . |
| 7 | Sometimes he and Charlie would spend a Saturday afternoon playing a George Formby record again and again until they 'd got all the words of ‘ I 'm Leaning on a Lamppost ’ or ‘ Chinese Laundry Blues ’ . |
| 8 | She yelled at the top of her lungs , calling again and again until at last he heard her terrified screams . |
| 9 | The plan was basically simple , but they went over the details again and again until mutual satisfaction prevailed . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of people thing they 're difficult people , but it 's more a case of them knowing what they want and doing it again and again until they get it right ’ . |
| 11 | The Sergeant stood fifty yards away from us and made us repeat those two lines again and again until our voices were hoarse ; as our singing got worse , he became more and more frustrated and threw stones at us . |
| 12 | He notes that Lawrence Olivier would repeat his lines again and again until he had so trained his tongue muscles to say them that he could perform effortlessly ( p. 154 ) . |
| 13 | Keeper was a big , strong dog , but she pulled him downstairs and hit him again and again until the dog was nearly blind . |
| 14 | He looked at the cigarette , almost burnt-out between nicotine-stained fingers , and stubbed it on his plate again and again until it was quite crumpled . |
| 15 | The game goes on and on , again and again until someone wins it . |
| 16 | And when she heard Gloria outside rattling the hen-house door , she screamed it again and again till Gloria managed to get the latch undone and came in and dragged her yelling through the droppings and feathers and washed her face under the water pump and dried it on her hanky . |
| 17 | again and again till you sighed and turned for love . |
| 18 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 19 | And we cheered and laughed at its chequered progress — and picked it up again and again because it was still too weak to get up alone . |
| 20 | Stories which Richard Burton brought out again and again because he was proud to celebrate his past and would not let any bounty or glamour of the present put it in the shade . |
| 21 | He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged , for by himself he can not help himself without belying the truth . |
| 22 | And that 's still something that comes again and again when men and women , when you and I are confronted with the claims of Jesus what about this ? |
| 23 | After attacking the Foreign Secretary , he began shouting at Mr Hurd again and again as Mr Hurd attempted to reply . |
| 24 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
| 25 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 26 | He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him . |
| 27 | " Oh , poor little thing ! " she sobbed and stroked the cat 's bead again and again as the tears fell unchecked on the matted fur . |
| 28 | Nothing would ever have induced them to chase a ball , but Buster did it again and again as though he would never tire of it . |
| 29 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 30 | He spoke about her again and again as we walked home . |