How to understand the below sentence? I was given the part of Juliet, which i played with a distinctly improper British accent. Even the name of the school seems right out of a novel.

Friends from those early years recall me almost backing them into corners to"interview" them? I couldn't understand the meaning of the sentence of 'Friends from those early years recall me almost backing them into corners to"interview" them?'

how to understand ' on the deck supporting' The whole sentence is 'We will have our engineers on the deck supporting our colleagues.'

what does here 'dropping' mean? In the sentence of 'If i'm dropping a player from the team,i don't feel i have to explain it to them'.what does here 'dropping' mean?

what is the meaning of 'he was succeed by his son'?

how to understand the sentense of 'But it got off a poor start initially'?

how to undertand "if you care when doing so"

what's the meaning of 'your late uncle'

for the word"odds" Can someone explain this word or give some example in different way about it.