| And all of them could be bloody-minded and contrary, helping you one minute but ignoring you the next. |
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| It's a good team up in York and it would be pretty bloody-minded for the new tenant not to give them a good chance. |
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| People of this sign have real difficulty fitting into the established order and have a bloody-minded will of their own. |
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| The more people try to stop me, the more I want to do it, just to be bloody-minded. |
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| Proud, reactionary, occasionally intimidating, fiercely independent, bloody-minded perhaps, but not sanguine. |
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| It was only a bloody-minded determination by the media to wrong-foot the Prince that gave this humorous aside even the appearance of controversy. |
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| A few were downright bloody-minded, seeing little difference between their call up and the press gangs of Britain's distant past. |
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| For a man whose playing career was characterised by dogged resilience and bloody-minded determination, the manager cuts a very different figure. |
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| Discipline a key factor in this, and all the more important because other teams were clearly going to struggle for tries against such a bloody-minded defence. |
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| That here is an athlete of such power, skill and bloody-minded determination that victory is accepted quietly, as if expected, and defeat like a plague on his house. |
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| The prime minister would, it is said, have taken the plunge had it not been for the bloody-minded insistence of his chancellor in sticking to the Treasury's five tests. |
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| On the other side an enraged, radicalized and increasingly sectarian and bloody-minded Islamist opposition. |
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| The real credit to the team was not just the sheer bloody-minded defence, but the fact it was achieved by so many second-string players in a squad short of depth. |
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| In the name of customer care, modern companies now set up an obstacle course only the most determined, bloody-minded and technically-blessed customer will get through. |
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| You've got to be bloody-minded and stay bloody-minded. |
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| But is it a craven love of hierarchy, or a polite but bloody-minded nosiness? |
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| He celebrated the larrikin streak in the Australian soul, the irreverence, the hedonism and physicality and of course the bloody-minded stoicism, obduracy and deviousness. |
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| The truth is I am perfectly happy with the way everything is moving along except for the sheer bloody-minded vindictiveness of the local newspaper. |
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| A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner. |
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| Small compensation for the election result, of course, but it is nice to be reminded that neither the Tories, nor the BBC's timorousness, are yet to suppress all pockets of bilious, bloody-minded resistance. |
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| And, of course, my client was a bloody-minded commercial corporation who was going to grab this technology and do huge IPOs and make jillions of dollars. |
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| A life-thirsting, cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jacques Three of St. Antoine. The whole jury, as a jury of dogs empannelled to try the deer. |
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