It was much like a peek-a-booor hide-andseek game, with a delight in hiding and also some wish to be found.
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Social behaviors consisted of seeking contact with an adult, participating in a reciprocal game such as "peek-a-boo," immediate imitation, and orienting to name being called (measured in rate of occurrence).
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A performer seeks the attention and approval of his or her audience, who can pay rapt attention, catcall andboo, or, worst of all, simply remain indifferent.
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The nonspecialist reader will be consequently put off by grammatical features such as the use of say as a complementizer, or by lexical items such as kick-e-re-boo'to die'.
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No, they booed the coach.
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Until he is willing to saybooto the unions' goose, his fiery oratory here will be merely the big boom of an empty drum.
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Meanwhile, the audience is hissing and booing and throwing things at the curtain.
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We have reports in the press of witnesses being hissed and booed or cheered, which brings the court into disrepute.
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When had finished my turn, would you believe it, that ignorant public harked back to the singer and started hissing and booing.
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It has become one of theboowords, like monetarism.
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Instead of indulging in yah-bootactics, we should get down to talking about our communities and the services that they need.
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In the name of democracy, the result of a democratic election is being booed off the platform and brushed aside.
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I am therefore keen that that sort of yah-booshould continue to take place.
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I am not putting my case in a yah-booway.
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A policy is often put forward from these benches which is received with jeers, laughs and boos from those benches.
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