Example sentences of "and [verb] again [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it .
2 The adult has then drawn attention to a deliberate change in the array , and asked again about the numerosity of the sets .
3 Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence .
4 Now he 's hoping to be back on the golf course soon and singing again by the end of the year .
5 So out of habit as much as out of duty , he turned his captured horse and rode again towards the enemy .
6 Likewise the increased accountability of heads to governors , created by the 1986 Education Act and expanded again in the Reform Act , means not only extra work but extra tensions both for the heads themselves and for their staffs .
7 And turns again to the stove , furiously stirring .
8 The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string .
9 He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 .
10 When the full length of tape has been used , the drive stops , and starts again in the opposite direction .
11 John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April .
12 He drew the sword out and prodded again at the wizard , who was rigid with terror and guilt .
13 The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack .
14 And heavens knows , once launched it 's all too hard to turn back and look again for the missed trace .
15 Mr Zamoyski unfolded his arms , shrugged and turned again to the back room , ending the interview .
16 She closed her eyes and communicated again with the figure .
17 I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June .
18 I tilted the bottle against my finger and sniffed again at the clear residue , wondering what to do , then ( nothing ventured , nothing gained ) , rubbed my wet finger round my gums .
19 Yorke took another swallow of beer and glanced again towards the cassette player , but said nothing .
20 In the living room she sat by the fire and glanced again at the envelope .
21 Recalling St Magnus Martyr and speaking again of the need to preserve the fabric of the church , Eliot declared he would cease to appeal in the name of Christopher Wren and his school , and appeal instead ‘ in the name of Laud and the beauty of holiness ’ .
22 And speaking again of the survivors , not to mention our three other visitors , we 'll have to find sleeping accommodation for them .
23 But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would .
24 The cat yawned and stretched and its teeth and claws flashed , then it turned its back on Millet and settled again on the lap of Michael Holly 's mother .
25 The woman who works at home erodes , shrinks and expands again to the contours of her papered walls .
26 To snuff out the FIRE OF PASSION and shiver again to the CHILL OF AWE , of magic , trance , falling , yearning .
27 One day the whole population would be perfect and shining again under the silver dewfall .
28 And started again on the cage .
29 They re-climbed the steps to the granite flags and there Karl turned and looked again at the statue , his face still sunken and sour .
30 McAllister finished the right front of the coatee , as Matey called it , cast off , and looked again at the half-grandfather clock with a sigh .
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