Example sentences of "[coord] again as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from .
2 Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath .
3 He spoke about her again and again as we walked home .
4 The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work .
5 The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work .
6 It was worth more than £1 to her to see the child 's face ; and again as she watched from beyond the crowd — for she waited a little once she got free of the press .
7 That first night , after the shock had begun to abate , the vision of Benedict 's snarling features , the sound of molten rage in his voice , had come back to her again and again as she lay in her narrow cot bed , and she had wept .
8 And again as I say it 's rather a nice erm picture which erm er was given to me some time ago .
9 He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him .
10 The crush bolt made a dragging , trailing sound across the floor , once to open and again as it closed .
11 They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers .
12 you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem .
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