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Example sentences of "treat [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	He was treating her like a cheap pick-up .
25	Leonora dreamed of the fierce rapture they 'd shared on the island and began to long for Penry to want her violently , to stop treating her like a younger sister , and sometimes after he 'd gone she 'd stare in the mirror in discontent , wishing she were tall , or voluptuous , or blonde .
26	They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity .
27	She glared at him , waiting until he had stopped the car outside her house before treating him to a cold smile .
28	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 .
29	And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck .
30	You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act .