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I think some of them over-analyse the games, but I don't really want to mention any names.
Jill Scott: 'If it came down to it, I think Anita could knock you out' | Small Talk | John Ashdown 2011
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I think some of them over-analyse the games, but I don't really want to mention any names.
Jill Scott: 'If it came down to it, I think Anita could knock you out' | Small Talk | John Ashdown 2011
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It is possible to over-analyse the dynamiting of the Bamiyan buddhas and the repeated vandalism of the Kabul museum.
The hill of gold 2011
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He didn't get hung up on grammar and did not over-analyse alien constructions.
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He reserves his strongest condemnation for those who "over-analyse the relationship's atmospherics", forensically compute the length of the meetings "whether it is a brush-by or a full bilateral", the number of mentions in a president's speech, the location and grandeur of the press conference, and whether the two leaders stand up or even sit down together.
David Cameron: don't obsess about US-UK special relationship 2010
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It would be easy to over-analyse the day and get into all sorts of metaphors; most of all, it was a laugh.
Archive 2009-06-01 TK 2009
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It would be easy to over-analyse the day and get into all sorts of metaphors; most of all, it was a laugh.
London Ukulele Festival 2009 TK 2009
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But I declined anything further because I knew that I would obsess and over-analyse way beyond what was healthy.
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What common people love to discuss, to analyse and over-analyse and misunderstand, are the differences between people.
Misunderstood josh 2008
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Which is to carefully over-analyse a situation to reach a completely counterintuitive conclusion and suggest that a 'bad' regime/idea is about to collapse.
MSM's knee-jerk reporting: Nepal as an example Sun Bin 2008
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