adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
repeatedly deny sth
▪ King has repeatedly denied being a gang member.
repeatedly/frequently/constantly criticize
▪ The fashion industry is frequently criticized for presenting extremely thin models as beautiful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
accuse
▪ Each side repeatedly accused the other of ceasefire violations.
ask
▪ She has repeatedly asked the state to leave her family alone.
▪ During their deliberations, the jury of seven women and five men requested a mountain of transcripts and repeatedly asked U.S.
▪ The chief judge of the State Courts has repeatedly asked the legislature to increase the number of judges and administrative personnel.
beat
▪ He was kept for two months in a hospital where he alleges that he was repeatedly beaten and kicked.
▪ His interrogation took place over several days, during which, he says, he was beaten repeatedly.
▪ They never flee from combat, and will fight to the death even if repeatedly beaten by their opponents.
▪ Eleanor was beaten repeatedly by her husband and became depressed as a result.
▪ During the six and a half years of marriage, I was repeatedly beaten, terrorized, tortured and sexually molested.
call
▪ Conference speakers repeatedly called for no let-up against the unions.
▪ Chirac has repeatedly called on the United States to increase aid to developing nations.
▪ The president, who repeatedly called for a balanced budget, was talking Republican talk.
▪ Just before the attack, she had been overheard calling repeatedly to Trincomalee asking if fighters had been dispatched.
▪ He would shout her name, call repeatedly into the wind until she appeared on the balcony to wave.
complain
▪ Young people and ethnic minorities have repeatedly complained about police harassment.
▪ Over the years, documents show, the board has repeatedly complained about the inadequate qualifications of many Energy Department officials.
▪ The U.S. government had repeatedly complained about the prosecution of Pope, although to no avail.
▪ The speaker has complained repeatedly that the news media has distorted his message.
declare
▪ For example, Bronson declared repeatedly that Kino would end the year in the black for the first time.
▪ The neo-communists are committed, he has repeatedly declared, to the closest possible ties to the West.
demonstrate
▪ He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men.
deny
▪ But Mr Pasqua has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, and says he has never met Mr Falcone.
▪ Mr Dorfman and the promoter, Donald Kessler, have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
▪ Uydess said the company covered up findings that cigarettes were addictive, a charge tobacco industry officials have repeatedly denied.
▪ Goldman never denied repeatedly trying to contact Lee after the incident but said she wanted him to apologize.
▪ In the past, McDougal has repeatedly denied that Clinton attended any such meeting.
▪ Knight has repeatedly denied ever being a gang member.
▪ I questioned Robert, who repeatedly denied taking apple, but was obviously lying because he blushed.
▪ Le Carre repeatedly denied the claim.
express
▪ The preference for directives as opposed to regulations for environmental matters has also been repeatedly expressed.
fail
▪ After repeatedly failing his examinations, he was eventually called to the bar in the Inner Temple.
▪ Dole rose to the top of the Republican Party by unusual means: He repeatedly failed to win national office.
▪ It's time to name, shame, and punish parents who repeatedly fail to control their children.
▪ Congress has failed repeatedly in the past decade to enact tougher laws.
▪ Yet whenever they meet, they repeatedly fail to create the vision and the strategy they desire.
▪ He points out that AT&T's computer business has repeatedly failed, something which even AT&T admits.
▪ What, we may ask Harris, happens to the child who repeatedly fails his annual examination?
find
▪ He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who? - and What? - was he?
▪ As we have repeatedly found, the 2 X 2 X 3 case is a good starting point.
insist
▪ Buthelezi had repeatedly insisted on a meeting with Mandela on an equal footing and in his capacity as head of Inkatha.
▪ The Cloud of Unknowing repeatedly insists on the necessity of taking expert advice from a spiritual director at every stage.
make
▪ The position, as the Government have repeatedly made clear, is that trusts will remain part of the national health service.
▪ Mr Major has repeatedly made clear his strong opposition changing the voting system.
occur
▪ In any given flow, similar, although not identical, patterns occur repeatedly.
▪ Clearly, if several indicators are present, or if they occur repeatedly, the probability of maltreatment is greater.
▪ One major problem occurred repeatedly, that of smuggling.
▪ Variations on this pattern have occurred repeatedly.
postpone
▪ In any case, it is not scheduled to be addressed until the repeatedly postponed final status talks.
▪ Registration for the sale has been repeatedly postponed to accommodate potential buyers, officials said.
rape
▪ He took her to a Forest Hill bedsit where he repeatedly raped her before releasing her.
▪ Unknown to Peevay, his mother had been kidnapped and raped repeatedly by Jack Harp, a freed convict.
▪ In custody she was repeatedly raped and abused.
referred
▪ Al Gore's presidential campaign repeatedly referred to his plans for tax credits as targeted tax cuts.
refuse
▪ But Clinton had left her dangling, repeatedly refusing to say whether she would win reappointment.
▪ Anderson repeatedly refused to predict when the company will move back into the black.
▪ Raoul Cedras repeatedly refused to honor agreements to return power to Aristide.
▪ Retail stores repeatedly refused to hire him.
reject
▪ Despite some public opinion polls and Supreme Court decisions to the contrary, voters have repeatedly rejected liberalization of abortion laws.
▪ When parents feel repeatedly rejected, they can unintentionally begin looking elsewhere for their satisfaction.
return
▪ With the aid of navigational satellites, the ship would be able to return repeatedly to the same area of ocean.
▪ Women repeatedly return to abusive relationships hoping to resolve the conflict and thus to not see themselves or their marriages as failures.
said
▪ The government has repeatedly said that it will not switch civil material to military use.
▪ Kmart has said repeatedly it has no plans to do that.
▪ The prime minister, Chandra Shekhar, has said repeatedly that he wants a political solution.
▪ The team has said repeatedly that it will not play in Candlestick Park after its lease with San Francisco expires in 2007.
▪ Massey repeatedly said that he could not recall speaking to Clinton about securing the business but may have done so.
▪ He has said repeatedly that the club is not for sale.
▪ Colin Powell, who would help Dole draw moderate voters, has repeatedly said he is unavailable.
say
▪ Massey repeatedly said that he could not recall speaking to Clinton about securing the business but may have done so.
▪ He repeatedly says he believes that she will lead the Conservatives into the next election and emerge victorious.
▪ Colin Powell, who would help Dole draw moderate voters, has repeatedly said he is unavailable.
▪ She repeatedly says that inflation is too high and that its reduction must be the Government's overriding priority.
▪ President Clinton has repeatedly said he has confidence in Perry, whose resignation had been suggested by Sen.
show
▪ Opinion polls repeatedly showed that restitution was unpopular.
▪ Analytical studies have repeatedly shown high correlations between mothers' education levels and the achievements of their children.
▪ Distributors showed repeatedly the old films from their stocks.
▪ Mineral, vitamin and blood-sugar levels have been repeatedly shown to affect ability to relax.
▪ The executions were shown repeatedly on local television.
stab
▪ Sandra hid in undergrowth nearby as Robert was repeatedly stabbed in the chest and beaten by the gang.
▪ Like hairdresser Katie, 19, she was stabbed repeatedly and sexually assaulted.
▪ Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety.
▪ She had been repeatedly stabbed and beaten about the head with a piece of wood.
state
▪ He repeatedly stated he wanted to leave.
stress
▪ Wulfstan also repeatedly stressed the importance of justice.
▪ Still, Stewartwho repeatedly stresses teamwork, singled out the play of Uwaezuoke.
▪ It is stressed repeatedly how some sportsmen had the potential or the promise yet lacked the application to develop it.
tell
▪ He repeatedly told himself he'd beat the stiffness out of it one day.
▪ As Baker repeatedly told jurors, the intent of punitive damages is to punish, not destroy.
▪ There was to be no inconvenience to the General, he had been repeatedly told.
▪ About half way through a charge, it repeatedly told me I had a minute of power left.
▪ She was repeatedly told that there was nothing physically wrong with her, that the pain must be emotionally caused.
▪ At least that is what I was repeatedly told.
▪ It had been repeatedly told to quit it by the Federal Aviation Administration.
threaten
▪ Violence marred the conduct of the election campaign with the main opposition leaders being repeatedly threatened.
▪ Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti.
▪ I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me.
▪ Charles repeatedly threatened this for those who flouted his authority.
▪ He threatened repeatedly to have them removed from the Hearing for disrupting the proceedings.
try
▪ We have tried repeatedly. 11.30: I phone the School Meals Organizer.
▪ Goldman never denied repeatedly trying to contact Lee after the incident but said she wanted him to apologize.
▪ She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage.
▪ White told how he had repeatedly tried to escape, been twice captured, twice imprisoned, finally condemned to death.
▪ Democrats had repeatedly tried do so but failed.
▪ Dole has repeatedly tried to avoid giving Democrats the opportunity for a straight vote on the wage.
urge
▪ Henry Purefoy repeatedly urges Leapor to perform tasks that have been delayed.
use
▪ The government has repeatedly used violence to suppress opposition demands that President Mobutu Sese Seko's powers be curtailed.
▪ Dole repeatedly used humor to soften the edges of his attacks.
▪ Heavy plastic or hessian sacks are treasured and used repeatedly.
▪ It may be some special legal word-ing, signature block, advertising message, or contractual term that is used repeatedly.
warn
▪ Note the irony: Christians seeking and encouraging others to seek that which our Lord repeatedly warned against.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Al Gore has stated repeatedly, that the American economy is dependent upon a healthy environment.
▪ Davis repeatedly denied that he had ever taken drugs.
▪ Graham's doctor had repeatedly warned him not to work so hard.
▪ Max was punched and kicked repeatedly as he lay on the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cord attached to overhead bells is pulled repeatedly.
▪ He repeatedly met people whose lives were desperate.
▪ He repeatedly stated he wanted to leave.
▪ His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.
▪ In the three months since the election, Clinton and Republican leaders have repeatedly and even reverently recited the appropriate rhetoric.
▪ Meanwhile, Kurt repeatedly and vehemently denied taking heroin.
▪ The preference for directives as opposed to regulations for environmental matters has also been repeatedly expressed.