His turned-up nose once annoyed him so much that for a while he slept with a peg on it.

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He is battling now against a French attempt to call a conference in Paris next month on the basis of Mr Obama's formula that so annoyed him last month: that the starting point should be the 1967 line, with mutually agreed land swaps and security provisions.

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I'm annoyed at him that he can't just remember the whole thing.

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"I pushed him away and he was getting really annoyed, " she said.

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His downbeat pronouncements about the progress of the military campaign had annoyed people in Washington too, where some regarded him as verging on the defeatist.

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An early gaffe when he annoyed Harry Truman by going public with their prayer together taught him discretion.

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He said he was annoyed that his paunch looked big when he saw pictures of him in the Batman suit.

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