Predictions are hazardous business, as all poll pundits will have realised to their chagrin this month. |
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Partick's chagrin, he suggests, might also fail to take into account a number of factors at work in these acquisitions. |
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Imagine my surprise and chagrin when I realised that I could not hear any music above the din of the rattly old Northern Line train. |
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A lamp post intervened much to the amusement of the watching public and chagrin of the cameraman. |
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I realised, with some chagrin, that for Hilberg the conclusion was implicit in the sequence, and he had trusted me to see it. |
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Carol, to her deep chagrin, has no job, yet, and proves like a bear with a sore head until she finds one. |
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Much to my chagrin, we drove past Skip's without stopping for an eye-opener. |
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Now it is becoming a festival of Mammon, much to the chagrin of the religious. |
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Too late, to his chagrin, not to mention embarrassment, he found that he had rather overdone it, and could not get near him. |
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At the mention of Vannington, the look changed to chagrin and embarrassment. |
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On one occasion I watched the ball skittle all the bowls much to the chagrin of the bowlers. |
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Finding the strict regime unnecessarily repressive on the kids, he drafts them into a choir, much to the chagrin of the tyrannical head teacher. |
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In the early 1920s, Mounties not only made the arrests but also, to the chagrin of some lawyers seeking work, prosecuted cases. |
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He coughed up his Bickfords and turned purple with a mixture of shame and chagrin. |
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Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin. |
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She says she always dreamed of becoming an actress but, to her chagrin, opportunity and ambition didn't seem to go hand in hand. |
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But here's the view from the other side, from someone who's smarter, and to my chagrin, better at snotty remarks, than me. |
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However, much to Dare's chagrin, the faculty did nothing to oppose Halpern's position. |
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To his embarrassment and chagrin, not one of these claims has turned out to be true. |
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I think, you know, I've been very open in the past, and a little bit to my own chagrin. |
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To Eliza's chagrin, she was sent to the office to learn secretarial skills. |
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To my chagrin, I notice that the two sets of documents are cross-referenced. |
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The president has expressed his support for amnesty on some occasions for illegals, much to the chagrin of many in the party. |
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And to the chagrin of Danish film boosters and patriots, they all turned out to be relative flops. |
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In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides. |
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Much to my horror and chagrin, I had neglected to follow this instruction, and before long found myself with a radio in my hotel room. |
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It's been nice, though to my chagrin not a single multinational corporation has offered me an endorsement deal of any kind. |
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Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India! |
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But, despite my chagrin at what I regard as a rip-off, I have booked two tickets. |
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But to Thayer's chagrin, the movie meets with a chilly reception from critics and public alike. |
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Imagine my amazement and chagrin when I saw the statue and surroundings in such a state of neglect. |
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Much her chagrin she saw that through the ravages of time it was pitted with holes, some small others rather large. |
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The pigeons, probably well used to such manoeuvres, took off timely, to the chagrin of their destructors. |
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Much to my chagrin no such indication appeared, and I handed the candy back to my daughter. |
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The long-awaited breakup will ensue, to the embarrassment and chagrin of many. |
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Imagine the chagrin of a young team that has spent several practices learning a conventional offensive play only to meet this pattern. |
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To the chagrin of his coworkers, Pace commits to delivering 40 high-priced cars to a South American gangster with only a few days to spare. |
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I too, much to my chagrin, fell prey to the seductions of the city. |
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Much to my chagrin, it turned out to be tough field corn that Zambians eat as a fresh vegetable, but more commonly grind into meal or flour for cooking. |
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When she proved noncommittal, he finally felt honor-bound to propose, and much to his astonishment and chagrin, she turned him down. |
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Samaras saw me and, to the chagrin of security, beckoned me just before the start. |
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This carry trade, as it is called, has cheapened Japan's currency, much to the chagrin of American carmakers and European policymakers. |
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To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland. |
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Heavy rolling was forbidden during matches a couple of years ago, much to the chagrin of batsmen up and down the land. |
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I can understand your chagrin in saying that, in that you really haven't seen the new program yet. |
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The folks from the income trust debacle have learned to their great chagrin to never trust Conservatives during an election. |
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Imagine my chagrin when, after a full-price offer, I was turned down. |
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Pauline and David were great picture takers, invite them to a gathering and they were sure to bring their camera, much to the chagrin of the camera-shy. |
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His hard-headedness was also in evidence when the Tour's television contract was awarded to Sky, much to the chagrin of the terrestrial traditionalists. |
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Poor Kate was so chop-fallen, she looked like a convicted criminal, who would gladly have hid herself, to conceal her mortified pride and deep chagrin. |
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To their chagrin, neutral observers have questioned the adequacy of due process in these cases. |
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He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu. |
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And much to the chagrin of some in the Lone Star State, a lot of people seem to be buying it. |
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To the chagrin of these 40 courageous online petitioners and their hoops-hungry brethren, March Madness is not a national holiday. |
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Morgan reviewed extensive longitudinal studies and other research and found, to the chagrin of adoption opponents, that outcomes for adopted children are good. |
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Much to our chagrin, someone put out a bootleg recorded at rehearsals. |
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Much to their chagrin, Kerry never went over his allotted time. |
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To his chagrin, he has come up with the evidence to prove him wrong. |
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He has adopted the one by the radiator, much to Tess's chagrin. |
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To her chagrin, Nook burst out in peals of unrestrained mirth. |
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Much to the chagrin of my room-mates, come election time I will roam around extolling the necessity of voting with the zeal of a religious fanatic. |
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And more data are being crunched all the time, so it should not be long before the result is either confirmed or disproved. If it is disproved there will, after all the brouhaha, no doubt be a period of chagrin. |
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Attempts were made to draft such levies, much to the chagrin of the militia commanders. |
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He had little use for amenities that tend to grow up around the rear echelon, much to the chagrin of a few of his ISAF colleagues. |
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A Birmingham Tory voter admired them so much that, to the bewilderment and chagrin of the men in her family, she decided to cut off her long hair and got a bob – she called it her Greenham haircut. |
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The North Kensington centre organised solicitors to provide a round-the-clock police station advice service, to the surprise and often the chagrin of the local cops. |
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Manitoba certainly started alerting people, much to the chagrin of the minister, whose office promptly scolded anyone for citing this as a problem. |
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Time and again experiments conformed neatly with the Standard Model, giving no inkling of what might lie beyond it, to the chagrin of many in the field. |
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Much to your chagrin, you fall through the trapdoor of never-used warranties that have milked you for thousands of your hard-earned dollars. |
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For many years now, our student population has been ghettoised in various corners of the city, often to the chagrin of some locals. |
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Dim-witted leading man Martin tries to remember his lines to the chagrin of long-suffering soundman Preston. |
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To the chagrin of his overbearing teacup Chihuahua, Poncho, Brendan Kelly made time for me in order to answer some burning questions. |
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She had gained five pounds over the winter, much to her chagrin. |
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Hence his chagrin at the fact that the conceptual break-through that made the thermonuclear weapon possible has always been attributed to him and Stanislaw Ulam jointly. |
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