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He told Jamie Carragher to "shut up" inside three minutes at Goodison Park and looked over-anxious in front of goal, but poor individual form is not only to blame.
Five issues Roy Hodgson must resolve to save his job at Liverpool Andy Hunter 2010
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The over-anxious and über-organized parent can be pretty annoying, even though I know where s/he is coming from.
Liz Willen: Visiting Schools Is a Full-Time Job! Liz Willen 2010
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So the police a\re now responsible for calming people made (by the media and politicians) over-anxious about crime?
A Spade Is A Spade. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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How many times have I told students what they need to do, only to be met with blank stares or the insincere gestures of over-anxious acceptance.
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The media was over-anxious to attack and discredit an enemy, and what we got was a mind-numbing amount of spin based on flimsy, butchered evidence.
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I guess a new Farmer Wold Newton book gets me a bit over-anxious ..
Book Cover Smackdown! Harsh Oases vs. The Evil in Pemberley House vs. Open Your Eyes 2009
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Computer games, say the researchers and over-anxious parents who won't let children out of their sight.
Dr Luisa Dillner's guide to . . . the health risks of video games 2011
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That she feels compelled to defend her choice to be naked, that she constructs ever more elaborate explanations for shunning underwear (my pachina gets scared in the dark!) – is that evidence that she struggles under the gaze of an over-anxious, prudish mother?
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First-time mothers who won't put their babies down are always called over-anxious, but it's not because we're anxious, it's because they're cute and we don't want to, claro?
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Javier Hernández, replacing Rooney, was also given his first experience of Old Trafford, although Ferguson reflected that the Mexican had looked "a little over-anxious".
Dimitar Berbatov primes Manchester United's charge as Newcastle falter Daniel Taylor at Old Trafford 2010
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