A woman repeatedly raped as a child remembers the agony of two rapes in one day and being raped in the dirt under a house, a Brisbane court has heard.

As a girl she cried herself to sleep one night only to be woken by the searing pain of the defendant raping her for a second time that day.

Sentencing the defendant, 55, to 17 years' jail on Monday, Judge Leanne Clare told him he had repeatedly committed "heinous offences". Credit:Louie Douvis

He was sentenced to 17 years' jail on Monday after being convicted by a jury last week of rapes and sexual assaults on the child for almost 10 years from when she turned four.

Brisbane District Court Judge Leanne Clare said the rapes and forced oral sex had occurred too many times for the woman to remember them all.