Sentence examples for order me about from inspiring English sources

(She was outraged when Gerry Raffles, Littlewood's partner and the theatre's manager, told her the money would remain in her bank account until she was 21: "You have no right whatsoever to order me about like some Inland Revenue employer… I've been offered a lot of money for the film rights and I want that car").

I'm not much of a cook, but Bocuse didn't care as he ordered me about, barking orders in his Lyonnais-accented French.

Still, when I asked about his age, he ordered me not to press.

"If you push, you will know me well and that would break my heart," he says, commanding her to "pick up your menu, order your meal, and tell me about your day".

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I sense she is about to order lunch for me, then she resists.

He played a Basie record for me once in order to teach me about Herschel Evans, the great tenor player.

His order: "What amazes me about Chipotle is how willing they are to give away the farm.

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Not dictated to, not owned, not ordered about by anybody but his own man".