But they approached us early, and shame on us for not reacting the right way.
"The Scarlets have approached us but no substantive detailed conversations have taken place, " Lewis told Scrum V.
"Tottenham Hotspur approached us on Sunday about Jermain, " said Hammers chairman Terence Brown.
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Last fall, when Mr. D'Aloisio was seeking financing, he said "a number of companies approached us" about a possible acquisition.
This week, a collector approached us with some American historical autographs, among them a pay warrant signed by Benjamin Franklin.
"A uniformed officer with a machine gun approached us and violently ripped the camera away from us, " said Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor Tim Marshall.
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Professor Dierker approached us and asked if we would support it.
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"The doctor approached us and mentioned the possibility, " my mum recalled.
As the man approached us, we made eye contact.
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When we started looking for a new site location in the U.S. the Louisiana Economic Development approached us and was very informative about the tax incentives offered by Louisiana to digital media companies.
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We first met Andrew Chang -- one of the co-founders behind LUMOback -- when he approached us at the end of our panel at SXSW and offered to show us his smart posture sensor.
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Most of the time the publishers approached us and said, this is what we have to offer and this is what we're looking for -- whether its some development help or some co-marketing -- but you know we would look at that the same way we would look at our strategy behind developing a first party game.
Armed with a list of 500, 000 potential targets, they approached the US Department of Homeland Security who pared it down to the most important 7, 200 targets.
The indictment says one of the accused approached a US informant, who was posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel, to carry out the assassination.
As he approached the US Open, he had slumped to 17th in the rankings but the way the tournament panned out, it was as if Sampras had planned it all along.
Later Saul Steinberg approached Drexel and asked us to represent him in an offer for Disney.
The US Nasdaq and Dow Jones were rocked by the Americans' own financial woes in July, when the US rapidly approached its debt ceiling, risking default if agreement could not be reached by a polarised Congress to raise it.
Enter ZTE, a company that's quiety snuck through the ranks to become the sixth largest handset maker in the world but has approached Canada and the US with kid gloves so far, starting with a Fastap phone (of all things) on Telus just last year and just recently moving onto MetroPCS in the States with the AWS-equipped C78 candybar and C79 flip.
None of us have been approached by Zimbabwe Cricket in the last seven months.
In a pattern similar to what we have seen over the last few days, the EUR was under pressure early today, but found new life as we approached the opening of the US Markets.
Libya quietly approached the United Kingdom and the US last March when the Iraq war began, with Qaddafi offering to open his facilities to Western inspection and to do away with any and all components relating to WMD production.
As the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death on 1 May 2011 approached, a joint intelligence bulletin issued by the US Northern Command, the FBI and Homeland Security Department expressed concern that al-Qaeda intended to "advance plots along multiple fronts, including renewed efforts to target Western aviation".
Li tells us that she removed her iPad when she approached the TSA guards to ask where it fell on their laptop to non-laptop spectrum.
Air Marshal Burridge said US-led troops would approach Baghdad in the same "deliberate" way UK troops had approached the southern city of Basra.
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