Positioned in the area of corpus stylistics and translation, this corpus-based multifactorial study aims to explore how Lithuanian translators handled repeatedly used reporting verbs signalling direct speech in English-original literary novels. Using the English-original novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, extracted from InterCorp corpus v.15 (Rosen et al. 2022) and its Lithuanian translation by Gražvydas Kirvaitis (2018), we conducted a two-stage corpus-based study focusing on, first, identification of translation patterns found in the novel, and, second, on exploration of factors (orthographic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic) that impacted preservation or avoidance of the original’s repetitions in the Lithuanian translation. We manually annotated 315 bilingual concordances with 3rd person past tense reporting verbs, extracted using CQL queries, and their Lithuanian counterparts with respect to five potential predictors of repetition shift. The results of mixed-effects logistic regression conducted in the R environment (R Core Team 2025) show that the translator tends to preserve source-text repetitions when the narrative is left structurally and pragmatically unchanged. However, when the translator intervenes more substantially, by shifting stance, reworking syntax, or when source-text reporting verbs were accompanied by adverbial modifiers, there is a strong tendency to break source-text repetition patterns and increase lexical variety in translation.