Example sentences of "again and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again and again as the nation prepared to cross the River Jordan and enter the Promised Land , Moses solemnly charged them : ‘ Remember ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ring Brian again and again for the relief of talking to someone in this Lucyless silent world , engaged , engaged , engaged . |
| 5 | And yet it is possible , as with all great art , to see the copies and to be enchanted again and again with the original . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is a wearying business , and I find myself thinking again and again of the lecture I went to on surviving in dangerous situations . |
| 8 | So we come back again and again to the notion of the rare catastrophic happenings playing a major role in the working out of the stratigraphic record as we find it today . |
| 9 | But even she could not manage Firelight , which brought him back again and again to the anchor-stone that Firelight had become in his life , which fact he would admit to no one and , in fact , had difficulty in accepting himself . |
| 10 | Example 38 is a ‘ perpetual canon ’ — in other words , the instruments can return again and again to the beginning , as in a round : |
| 11 | Capital refers again and again to the themes of Formen . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Viva Hate ! , unsurprisingly , returns again and again to the Englishness which obsesses Morrissey . |
| 17 | Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth . |
| 18 | Though Mr Major went on record again and again during the election campaign to forecast a steady drop in taxes over four or five years , Ministers admit privately that the bill must go up , not down , in the spring Budget . |
| 19 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 20 | ‘ That basic shape — the squarish shoulders and narrow hips — is one that I discovered , when I went through the files , keeps turning up again and again over the years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Again and again in the responses to our 1989 survey of all heads , those in Phase 3 schools commented negatively on their PNP staffing : that it had little impact ; that it even exacerbated their previous staffing problems ; that it was too little too late ; that the LEA did not understand the problems which their schools were trying to tackle . |
| 25 | Within a short time the resulting single cell will divide , and divide again and again in the development of the individual now growing . |
| 26 | Again and again in the night hours she thought of him , of his aggression and of the barely veiled hint in his parting shot ‘ so long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ that for all she had , so far , gone along with everything he had decreed , she could still find herself out of a job if she did n't toe the line . |
| 27 | And again and again in the stories comes the hint of separateness , of difference , as if to confirm this . |
| 28 | Again and again in the letters and diaries of the period there are references to both partridge and elephant fights ; they also feature prominently in the miniature illustrations of late Mughal manuscripts . |
| 29 | He uses that picture again and again in the bible of us being like sheep . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |