Example sentences of "again [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Viva Hate ! , unsurprisingly , returns again and again to the Englishness which obsesses Morrissey . |
| 15 | Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Within a short time the resulting single cell will divide , and divide again and again in the development of the individual now growing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He uses that picture again and again in the bible of us being like sheep . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There were , however , no precise indications as to the number and frequency of repetitions ; indeed , we find that he changed his mind again and again regarding the potency and repetition of the remedy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lee flung the helmet on the floor and kicked it again and again against the toilet . |
| 27 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |