(1) Did it originate with the pet peeve of a self-anointed maven?
(2) With a Tory leadership campaign looming, who wants to get on the wrong side of a man whose pet peeves can be on the front page of the Times and the Sun every day?
(3) The Guardian view on Sir Michael Wilshaw: ruffling the right feathers | Editorial Read more His reliance on personal anecdotes over facts has also led to him focusing on pet peeves.
(4) But despite taking the major honours of the evening the singer was cut off in her moment of glory and looked peeved as host Corden interrupted her to make way for Blur because the televised show was running out of time.
(5) Paul Ince was too peeved to celebrate and demanded a post-match meeting with the referee.
(6) Great drama lives in the vacuum between the lines – the space we fill with our experiences, likes and pet peeves.
(7) Sam Allardyce was peeved as he felt Noble had nicked the ball.
(8) Bulk collection of phone and internet records raises a slew of constitutional questions, all of which are pet peeves for the libertarian-leaning Paul.
(9) Two years on, his mother will obviously be mildly peeved: Al Bernameg is no stranger to innuendo where the material allows, and Islam is not a taboo.
(10) What follow are 10 common issues of grammar selected from those that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns and irate letters to the editor.
(11) "I had more followers than her," Gardiner notes, slightly peeved, before conceding: "I don't know, she was probably right."
(12) "I was really peeved that everyone had taken issue with the fact that I think I'm attractive rather than engaging with the debate.
(13) One serious peeve is loud music, and especially those places that won't turn it off, or down, even when your group are the only customers.
(14) Big companies have a fail-safe weapon when they are peeved with customers and that is to go to ground, which E.ON did successfully for two months until I winkled them out via the press office.
(15) Nationals leader Warren Truss said the US president, Barack Obama, had been “peeved” that he hadn’t been able to win a free trade agreement with China like Australia had.
(16) "I only had a day or two of dance lessons," says Aaron, sounding a little peeved.
(17) As long as we don’t peeve our customers coming in for a pint or a meal and slow up service then I think we can do it.” He said the takeaway offer would probably be extended to more drinks at first, rather than food.
(18) "They are all pretty peeved about it – hardly urgent police work."
(19) When some people are not pulling their weight, for example, isn't it quite right and proper to get more than a little peeved?
(20) As for Ed Miliband, he'll doubtless carry on seeking an inquiry into "the culture of banking" with the same manner he always affects when discussing capitalist crisis: looking like a faintly peeved vicar who has just leafed through the Financial Times and discovered that Bad Things are happening in the cosmos.
Reeve
Definition:
(n.) The female of the ruff.
(v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
(n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary of the Treasury, said: "This doesn't feel like a safe haven to families and businesses and young people.
(2) The shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, said the 49% rise revealed “the Tory plan is failing”.
(3) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
(5) Reeves needs both hardness of head and kindness of heart, without trimming her messages to please difficult audiences.
(6) But it’s optimistic to imagine that such action would dispel all the rage MPs such as Reeves are encountering every day.
(7) It can't hurt, either, that he's kept the faith with a group of friends who, in some cases, go back to his Super 8 days: Cloverfield director Reeves, cinematographer Larry Fong, production partner Bryan Burk.
(8) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(9) The membrane preparation, isolated by the Reeves and Sutko's method, was purified ninefold over homogenates as judged from the results of measurements of (Na+K+)-ATPase and K+-p-nitrophenylphosphatase activities, sialic acid, and cholesterol.
(10) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, and Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, led a shadow cabinet fightback in support of Miliband on Friday night.
(11) The cmlB locus, determining increased resistance to the antibiotics chloramphenicol and tetracycline, also lies in this region (Reeve, 1966).
(12) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(13) To accumulate phylogenetic information on the central histaminergic system, we investigated the histaminergic system in the brain of the Reeves turtle, Chinemys reevesii, using the indirect immunofluorescent method with antiserum against histamine.
(14) On the broader costs of social security, Reeves says that the government is failing to control costs because it does not grasp the adverse effects that falling wages and rising rents are having in pushing up the welfare bill.
(15) Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to slashing the benefits bill, Rachel Reeves, the new shadow work and pensions secretary, has insisted in her first interview since winning promotion in Ed Miliband's frontbench reshuffle .
(16) Study has been made of the effects of a variety of metabolic inhibitors and divalent cations (Ni2+ and Mn2+), normally after 5 min exposure, on the biphasic uptake of inorganic phosphate (Pi) exhibited by phosphate-deprived cells of Escherichia coli, strains AB3311 (Reeves met-) and CBT302 (a (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase-deficient mutant).
(17) A simple model is used to explore the extent to which the uniquely comprehensive studies of western equine encephalomyelitis in Kern County, California, by Reeves and his colleagues over many years, explain the dynamics and epidemiology of the infection.
(18) Rachel Reeves , the shadow work and pensions secretary, said she had not seen the briefing document, but its length and detail underlines how seriously the party is taking the Ukip threat.
(19) Keiron Reeves, 29, who treating severe epilepsy with cannabis oil, said: "I feel much healthier and more confident in addressing everyday tasks like washing, shopping, tidying, all those things most people take for granted.
(20) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said Labour would support proposals upholding the principle that "you have to pay something in before you get something out".