Example sentences of "and again [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Mr Major went on record again and again during the election campaign to forecast a steady drop in taxes over four or five years , Ministers admit privately that the bill must go up , not down , in the spring Budget . |
| 2 | The bands come into their own on the Sunday nearest to the feast of St Jakob ( 25 July ) when the holiday of the alpine herdsmen is celebrated , and again during the Alpstobete , a noisy celebration to close the summer grazing season . |
| 3 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 4 | The family was reunited at Park House for half term and again during the Christmas holidays . |
| 5 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 6 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 7 | In the period of Emancipation , in the late 1860s , and again at the end of the reign the government faced major student disturbances . |
| 8 | I repeated my fruitless exercise at the end of October , and again at the end of November , when I finally relented and paid the cheapest price I could get . |
| 9 | Relaxing music is played at the beginning of the float and again at the end to indicate your time is up . |
| 10 | And then , having cut it in half , turn again and again at the charge to carve it , neatly , for Thorfinn 's well-placed and well-protected infantry to engulf and slaughter . |
| 11 | AND AGAIN AT THE START OF THE NEW YEAR . |
| 12 | Delaney got out his knife , struck again and again at the arm , watching the blade plunge into the surface , saw it ooze and close over again . |
| 13 | Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth . |
| 14 | Charlotte passed a glum and largely sleepless Sunday night , unable to restrain her mind from rummaging again and again through the clues that always led , however often they were re-examined , to the most hopeless of conclusions . |
| 15 | ‘ The boys come , two at a time , when they are 14 and again between the ages of 16 and 18 . |
| 16 | As Sergeant King struggled to get into the car of a passing motorist , Vernage continued his attack , plunging his knife again and again into the policeman . |
| 17 | The second came when Bennett and Carter both went for the ball , which bounced off the pair of them and again into the net . |
| 18 | Again and again as the nation prepared to cross the River Jordan and enter the Promised Land , Moses solemnly charged them : ‘ Remember ! ’ |
| 19 | In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th . |
| 20 | Oh aye when they used to carry it they they were drinking a dram now and again on the road going to it . |
| 21 | They then interact with microwaves on their way up and again on the way down after gravity has turned them round . |
| 22 | I get to the fence leading downhill and follow it , stumbling now and again on the rocks and stones left at the side of the field ; my eyes are still adjusting to the darkness . |
| 23 | The other er aspect perhaps is if and again on the consultation leaflet and in the manual , effect on houses demolished . |
| 24 | He had left her alone deliberately on that Sunday night , and again on the Monday , but by the end of Tuesday even his iron control had disintegrated in the face of his overwhelming need for her . |
| 25 | And yet it is possible , as with all great art , to see the copies and to be enchanted again and again with the original . |
| 26 | And , and again with the bills that is another option with the bills . |
| 27 | He had been sighted at Woodcote and again with the gypsies at the village of Checkendon . |
| 28 | And Fand did n't try to counter-attack , only parrying again and again with the shaft of her spear , gripped in her two hands . |
| 29 | ‘ That basic shape — the squarish shoulders and narrow hips — is one that I discovered , when I went through the files , keeps turning up again and again over the years . |
| 30 | Capital refers again and again to the themes of Formen . |