Example sentences of "[verb] again [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He circles round this difficult area , trying to explain it to himself ; such a circular method of approach enabled him to rewrite again and again in a syncretic way , adding and extending without damaging the basic structure of the poem . |
| 2 | Having sacrificed his career , in a way , for this mission , he talks as though he means to continue with it , of returning again and again to the theme that the stable family is the means of prosperity and , to some extent , happiness . |
| 3 | Next to the incessant bombardment , the stink of putrefaction and the utter desolation of the battlefield , Verdun combatants testify again and again to the terrifying isolation , seldom experienced to the same degree in other sectors . |
| 4 | And yet it is possible , as with all great art , to see the copies and to be enchanted again and again with the original . |
| 5 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 6 | He knew that escape would not be made by force but , even so , his mind returned again and again to the grains and snippets of stories that had somehow ( how ? ) permeated into the world of Men . |
| 7 | Example 38 is a ‘ perpetual canon ’ — in other words , the instruments can return again and again to the beginning , as in a round : |
| 8 | They must try again and again for a compromise that is fair and honourable . |
| 9 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt again and again as an actor that we simply were not gaining the audience 's confidence . |
| 11 | And then , having cut it in half , turn again and again at the charge to carve it , neatly , for Thorfinn 's well-placed and well-protected infantry to engulf and slaughter . |
| 12 | De Barescut and Serrigny were despatched again and again to the front as Pétain 's eyes , and — like Saxe on his litter at Fontenoy — over the next days he directed the battle , shaking with fever , from his sickbed . |
| 13 | His images have appeared again and again in the magazine over the last ten years ( the most recent was on the cover of the cancer issue ) . |
| 14 | And Fand did n't try to counter-attack , only parrying again and again with the shaft of her spear , gripped in her two hands . |
| 15 | He was depicted as the sun , a young warrior who was born each day , defeated the stars of the night and was resurrected again and again by the souls of warriors in his care . |
| 16 | Happily ( and daisy flowers always make me feel happy ) the same arrangement and connotations may be reproduced again and again in the garden by planting a selection of daisy relatives and look-alikes . |
| 17 | Within a short time the resulting single cell will divide , and divide again and again in the development of the individual now growing . |
| 18 | In 1175–6 Henry II 's obsessive concern for John , revealed again and again in the last sixteen years of his reign , drove Aimar of Limoges to rebellion . |
| 19 | The group also has evidence , from the Azores , of volcanoes rising above the waves only to sink again and again beneath the weight of accumulating lava . |
| 20 | Capital refers again and again to the themes of Formen . |
| 21 | The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings , and this may have to happen again and again with the same people . |
| 22 | The pattern was repeated again and again in the following decades , thereby creating an atmosphere of confrontation which encouraged a few incorrigible spirits to make a lifelong commitment to war against authority . |
| 23 | Delaney got out his knife , struck again and again at the arm , watching the blade plunge into the surface , saw it ooze and close over again . |
| 24 | — There was no way , though , she was going to step into that pit : Simon 's warning , ‘ Making a fool of you — not as daft as you think — making a fool of you , ’ replayed again and again like a commentary to the pictures in her head . |
| 25 | It is a wearying business , and I find myself thinking again and again of the lecture I went to on surviving in dangerous situations . |
| 26 | Charlotte passed a glum and largely sleepless Sunday night , unable to restrain her mind from rummaging again and again through the clues that always led , however often they were re-examined , to the most hopeless of conclusions . |
| 27 | Viva Hate ! , unsurprisingly , returns again and again to the Englishness which obsesses Morrissey . |
| 28 | The first part of Gaudium et Spes returns again and again to the theme of Christ , the New Adam who ‘ fully reveals man to man ’ , himself making man 's vocation clear , and in whom is to be found the key and focal point for human history and civilization . |
| 29 | This returns again and again in a variety of contexts , but the theological heart of it is to be found in the development of a theology of the Church as a communion of ‘ churches ’ . |
| 30 | Her hair was heavily oiled , perfumed and washed again and again in a henna mixture . |