Sentences with phrase «accosted by»

When I realised it was a bus stop, I turned the corner, did a three - point turn in a nearby street and returned to the legal pick - up zone, where I was accosted by the narky parking cop.

So I'm minding my own business, grabbing a Diet Coke from the BBQ chicken shop, when I'm accosted by a sandwich - short - of - a-picnic person.

Sean Penn's publicist has issued an apology on his son's behalf: «I was accosted by paparazzi and made to feel like an animal — threatened and under attack, but that does not condone my own actions.

It was December 1915, and as Chadbourn — a founder of the Minnesota state association — made his way down a Minneapolis street on his way to a board meeting, he was accosted by a headline.

In case you haven't already been accosted by your friendly neighborhood mathlete, it's Pi day today.

She and her friend both were accosted by the guy previous to this.»

How annoyed do you get when you go to a store and you're just looking around and you're accosted by 12 sales professionals?

What would you do if you were out for a Sunday ride and you were suddenly accosted by hundreds of screaming fans, a support car, and even a male streaker?

Suddenly accosted by strange fiends, he's saved by a mysterious faerie encased in crystal whose memories are spotty at best.

A civilian is being accosted by some thugs and we see how web rush can be used in combat.

Along the way, you'll be accosted by some Team Skull Grunts once again.

If we are relying on stealth don't make it so easy for us to be seen; there were certainly situations where we thought that there was no way for us to be able to persevere without being accosted by the guards.

The downside to this is that as soon as the player ceases to be engaged in the collection, the intrinsic greed that originally kept them searching falls by the wayside and the longer journeys can begin to become tiresome unless the player is able to enjoy the sheer aesthetic beauty of the landscape — and this becomes much tougher when the player is intermittently accosted by enemies.

Professor Kukui is waiting back in Malie Garden but, when you get there, you'll find him being accosted by Guzma, the boss of Team Skull!

From the minute you get off the train at Aguas Calientes, you are accosted by dozens of shacks peddling colourful souvenirs set up in such a way that you have no choice but to walk through this maze to get to the other side of the Urubamba river where the village is.

All you want to do is enjoy a walk with your dog around the neighborhood, without being accosted by other dogs.

I don't like being accosted by strangers and neither do my dogs.

There's a good chance that your service dog will be stepped on, bumped into, run over, squished, jumped on by children, or accosted by rude dogs (sometimes aggressive dogs unfortunately).

In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.It is set among marshes in Kent, and in London, in the early to mid-1800s, and contains some of Dickens» most memorable scenes, including the opening, in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.

But, when her luggage is lost and she is accosted by an infuriating Homeland Security agent named Dawson Tate, events take a dangerous turn.

Toyota had been accosted by consumers and journalist alike for not having a true full - size competitor.

When fueling our «pedestrian» 2014 Range Rover Sport, we were routinely accosted by hot housewives in yoga pants wanting to look at, climb on, or sit in our test vehicle.

I'd never given thought to Seattle's timber - logging beginnings until accosted by a local with a flowing white beard inside a rather beat - up bar on Pioneer Square.

We have shown up to school every day for three years unsure if we would be accosted by organizers bent on creating a divisive environment in our school, or if they'd be waiting in the parking lot to corner us as we headed home.

Elected officials do not want to be accosted by the angry parents of kids with (or whose parents are sure they have) disabilities.

Before he was ever accosted by apes, Charlton Heston galloped to Oscar gold for his performance as a Jewish prince turned slave in the 1959 historical epic Ben - Hur.

Before he leaves, the man is accosted by the castle's owner, a hairy, hideous, and sort of human monster (Jean Marais) who decides the old man should die for stealing one of his roses.

The manuscript tells the brutal story of Tony Hastings, a man who, while traveling with his wife and daughter is accosted by these creeps on a highway in West Texas.

She is accosted by a group of thugs lead by Moses (John Beyega) who takes her valuables.

As Brea heads inside, John is accosted by a trio of gnarly white bikers, who move from casual conversation to racial microaggressions to all - out aggression.

Over another stretch of about 10 minutes, we experience brutal rage (when Barry is overwhelmed during a date with Emily Watson's Lena, a woman seemingly out of his league, he steps into the bathroom and kicks in the stall doors, grunting with volatile distress), we experience achingly sincere emotion (when the date ends with Lena unexpectedly calling Barry back up to her apartment for a kiss, he sprints down the hall like a man on fire rushing towards an extinguisher, underscored by strings and accordions straight out of an Audrey Hepburn romance), and we experience stark terror (after the date, Barry is accosted by extortionists and flees on foot as they pursue with hurled invective).

One day while in a drugged haze, he is accosted by another man, and in the ensuing scuffle, Joey ends up killing him.

Realizing they are not alone, she enters the house and gets accosted by one of the four robbers.

At the party in question, 33 - year - old David is accosted by his friend with benefits, Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz), who isn't happy to not have been invited.

One day, he is accosted by a couple of Division sniffs.

Once beyond Harry's life with the Dursley's, which begins most Harry Potter films to this point, Potter's world is turned upside down when he is accosted by Dementors, horrible creatures that steal the happiness out of you, on the Hogwarts Express.

On his way back to town with the hides from the last winter, trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is accosted by a band of Indians.

Michael Madsen has a paranormal experience at a Texas hotel; Linda Dano encounters a child's spirit; Joanna Cassidy discovers a tunnel underneath her home; and Rae Dawn Chong is accosted by a disturbed entity.

The proverbial «glass slipper» arrives with unexpected horror when Jupiter is accosted by strange alien assailants looking to end her existence.

Outside, Brad is accosted by an unknown male partygoer who asks him for a ride.

Unaware that he is trespassing on Waggoman's land, he finds himself accosted by Alec's sociopathic son, Dave (Alex Nicol), who brutally beats Will and is ready to kill him.

She will be accosted by drunks all the time, labeled as loose, or someone will make silly conclusions about her.

Having made it up the steep dirt bank without killing ourselves or being accosted by police, we then off - roaded it down another steep bank, in order to find our way back on the more orthodox trail up the hillside!

Plus, and this is a big plus... it seems as though each and every time I run an errand or grab a bite to eat or head out on my own to browse, I get accosted by really uncomfortable, awkward hit - ons.

There are texts and meditations on the power and purpose of science fiction, both as art form and intellectual tool, but visitors are left to piece together their own ideas — difficult while being accosted by a real Darth Vader mask, Star Trek spacesuits and an enormous, loud, interactive NASA console.

When cycling along a local street, I am occasionally accosted by people asking for small amounts of money.

Mr. Austin Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt, had closed late for the day and as he left office, he was suddenly accosted by a gang of daredevil hoodlums who opened fire on him.

She said, «I had gone to the farm to get vegetables when I was accosted by the herdsman.

In the last couple of months leading up to the NPP national executive elections, l have been accosted by various groups in the NPP to urge me and pledge support for me to contest for one or the other national executive positions.

After the burial, as our people were returning from the village of the deceased around 5:30 pm and on reaching St Mary's Catholic Church, where they were supposed to disperse to their various homes, they were accosted by a team of Nigeria security agents and without any provocation they began shooting at our people.