Example sentences of "[verb] over [coord] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lachlan heard rehearsed over and over his rages and violence . |
| 2 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 3 | He heard a pigeon going over and over its announcement with that bounce at the end which sent it always back to the beginning again — coo coooo cou-cou ; coo cooo cou-cou . |
| 4 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 5 | This sometimes takes the form of one or more anticipatory subordinate clauses before the verb of the main ( superordinate ) clause , as in this section of ( 2 ) : " and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over The common occurrence of parenthetic structures can also be noted : " somewhat grimly " ( 6 ) ; " tapping her left side familiarly " ( 9 ) ; " then at Nice " ( 11 ) . |
| 6 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 7 | She went over and over the last time she had seen him . |
| 8 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |