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I didn't know what to think, but felt quite patronised.

Three services were run each day although it was never a particularly well patronised service.

Please do not feel patronised or that I am trying to tell you your job.

Then, as the days roll by, you begin to feel patronised.

It is without doubt the most patronised sport in the country.

As a northerner who knows nothing about money, I feel quite patronised by that.

I never expect guys to love me, and feel patronised when they say they do.

Have you ever felt patronised when having something explained to you?

I think it's unfair to audiences, who get patronised and don't see anything new.

At one time it was abuzz with important society and patronised second only to London.

I feel patronised when, as increasingly happens, a pretty young girl stands up to offer me her seat on the Tube.

Nothing is more homogeneously patronised than a restaurant set up with business types in mind.

She attended a local HS2 meeting but felt patronised and ignored.

I am not alone in feeling patronised or alienated by technology and consumer electronic brands.

Although the event was well patronised takings were well down.

Nothing is worse for someone like Margaret Thatcher than to feel patronised.

"We have to stop putting ourselves in positions where we get patronised.

And, best of all, you don’t feel patronised.

"We want staff to understand the frustration people with dementia feel and how easily they feel patronised," she says.

It was estimated to be the least patronised station in the entire city network, with only an average of 11 passengers using it a day.

Too many patronised and culturally excluded from the very novelist who was their most ardent champion.

It eventually became the most well patronised weekday event in the Singapore clubbing scene.

Although focussed on its highly patronised casino, the distinction between experiences is blurred.

They will be praised rather than patronised.

They retreated, baffled, to their riches when the patronised peasants didn’t want to revolt.