Example sentences of "again [conj] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I looked back again and again at the silent pair under the tree . |
2 | The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings , and this may have to happen again and again with the same people . |
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 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
5 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
6 | On closer inspection , however , it is not difficult to see that this is a rather mild counter-movement , one of those smaller eddies that spring up again and again from the many-layered structure of historical change within every stage of more comprehensive processes . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
9 | Again and again in the past two or three years , Mr Smith quelled dissent by saying that only his policy of studied respectability and his concentration of tax upon the top 20 per cent of voters could win . |
10 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
11 | Thompson shows that again and again in the last century these men resented efforts to make them into ‘ tools ’ or ‘ implements ’ . |
12 | 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 . |