Example sentences of "again [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked back again and again at the silent pair under the tree . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 4 | Symphonic and shambolic , they stumble out of contorted , scratchy dins and into lurchingly beautiful crescendos again and again with a clumsy , haphazard kind of grace . |
| 5 | The first solution is mutual confession of sin and wrong feelings , and this may have to happen again and again with the same people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Again and again in the fifth and fourth centuries the other Greek states tried to get a hold on Thessaly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 16 | Thompson shows that again and again in the last century these men resented efforts to make them into ‘ tools ’ or ‘ implements ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The earlier classics — Annie Hall , Manhattan , Love and Death , Sleeper et al — are all available from Warner at around £11 , and each should be collected and brought out again and again like a favourite sweater . |
| 19 | Fans , yes , no , , building , you know , , and then the , they made trouble again and then for every down they did n't pull something down and so they had to pay oh so many er thousands . |