How To Use Chivvy In A Sentence
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I don't have time to absorb much, though: some white-coated women and Dr Stone chivvy me towards an uncomfortable-looking chair.
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Both are keen to promote excellence in schools, and this week Hunt asked Gove to chivvy academies where they "are onaverage teaching one third less GCSEs in history and geography" than bog-standard comprehensives.
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The nationwide vaccine campaign was deemed superfluous on the basis that it was for them to chivvy vulnerable patients into getting the jab.
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I've stared at someone's still-wet hair on a cramped train for a few minutes, and by the time I'm at the top of the escalators my mind has had a chance to re-engage and chivvy itself along.
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It's lucky to chivvy the hawk what chivvies a magpie.
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
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He said: ‘Umpires should be chivvying the players about slow over rates and there are still a lot of unnecessary drinks breaks.’
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Asked if he would like to take a samurai sword to his critics, he said: ‘Critics are good - they chivvy us along.’
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Parents must resist the temptation to chivvy the child along and tell them not to be silly - their fear and apprehension is very real to them.
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He doles out brisk advice and the occasional terse chivvy.
Alain Ducasse gives Paris's poorest women a lifeline
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As the tension eased he jerked his head, and warily the toughs began to chivvy the laborers into the trucks again.
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I imagine Stuart Law will play a leading role in chivvying people along.
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They're a-making cockshies of us, sir," said Tom Jecks; "better let two of us go ashore and chivvy 'em off.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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And then, about ten days after I had started galloping her, a couple of Ruski staff captains jingled into the courtyard one morning, to be followed by a large horse-sled, and shortly afterwards comes the Count's major-domo to East and me, presenting his apologies, and chivvying us off to our rooms.
The Sky Writer
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He kept putting off writing the report so I had to chivvy him along.
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It'll get you there all right, but don't bother chivvying it.
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So what can be done to chivvy along a reclusive pop genius?
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Given so many of us have our own private health and fitness goals it might help to chivvy people along.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Hammered.
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Rather than chivvying them to perform better, investors shrug their shoulders, sell up and move on.
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As long as he was doing something, or surveying an area of a plan, he would be quite happy and his mind would be off chivvying his brother about quick ways to turn stolen silver into spendable cash.
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When we speak, he addresses me like a slightly harried father chivvying a child.
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Wine, wheat, sausages, silk - these were as important to della Rovere as chivvying Michelangelo to finish the sculptures for her father's tomb or commissioning expensive tapestries for her walls.
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When we speak, he addresses me like a slightly harried father chivvying a child.
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Presumably to chivvy things along, the Chief Justice says he has provided the working party with a supporting secretariat supplied by the Department of Justice.
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If Cameron wants to liven things up, he should chivvy his hosts on a more intriguing question.
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If you are owed money by people following some sponsored event, keep chivvying them to ensure that they all pay up.
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To recap the latest episode, the authors have stooped to the hoary old plot device of a startling newspaper revelation to chivvy the drama along.
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The action plan he has produced will involve thoroughly cleaning the school, chivvying students to get to school and lessons on time and encouraging them to take pride in the school and their work.
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He kept putting off writing the report so I had to chivvy him along.
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Soon after we arrived, when Joe had gone below stairs to chivvy the porters about our bags, and Annette and I were alone, I excused myself to visit the privy along the way.
THE NUMBERS
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He said: ‘He used his significant influence with the Church of England to chivvy us all, Anglicans and others, into getting on with some really creative shared actions.’
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To chivvy the unconjugal to conjugate may to be store up greater unhappiness.
David Cameron should honour his marriage vow
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Walking on will only disturb them again and again, and having no wish to chivvy them the length of the beach we detour along the track through the dunes, regaining the sands with the gulls behind us and miles of beach ahead.
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