Example sentences of "treat [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 3 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 4 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 6 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 7 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 8 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 9 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 10 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 11 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 12 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 13 | And to make up for it I 'll treat you to a slap-up lunch in Haverfordwest . ’ |
| 14 | In the north and east the Curled or Lesser Octopus Eledone cirrhosa may treat you with a colourful appearance . |
| 15 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 16 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 17 | The authorities did not intend to give peasants legal parity with the other estates of the realm , but to continue treating them as a separate estate . |
| 18 | ‘ We shall be treating them like a Premier League side . ’ |
| 19 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 20 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 21 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 22 | What is meant by treating you as a whole person ? |
| 23 | ‘ I think caring really means treating you as a human being . |
| 24 | And that 's when you really start getting problems and they start treating something as a continuous function , and it 's not . |
| 25 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 26 | He was treating her like a cheap pick-up . |
| 27 | They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity . |
| 28 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 29 | She glared at him , waiting until he had stopped the car outside her house before treating him to a cold smile . |
| 30 | Lovat was used to cringing servility , and he could n't remember when anyone had last disagreed with him , never mind treating him to a scalding tirade of abuse . |