Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's go and have a drink , then you can treat me to a celebratory dinner ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 4 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 5 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 7 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 8 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 9 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings . |
| 13 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 14 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 15 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 16 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 17 | The first was whether a reasonable buyer who was acquainted with the condition of the goods would buy them without a substantial abatement of the price . |
| 18 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 19 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Then perhaps you can assist me on a minor point of methodology ? ’ |
| 21 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |
| 22 | IF you have valuables insure them with a special student scheme . |
| 23 | You 'd need someone with a good deal of local knowledge to pull that off . ’ |
| 24 | He would describe himself as a keen engineer rather than ‘ train spotter . ’ |
| 25 | A shopkeeper from a slave line might describe himself as a free Zuwayi without incongruity ; but other people would usually call him abd , a black with an enslaved grandparent somewhere in his line . |
| 26 | Hamad Hasan did not describe himself as a free Zuwayi , but his ventures into gardening and trade , and his use of his agricultural knowledge and skills , were characteristic activities of free men . |
| 27 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 28 | ‘ And did n't we all know you for a darling girl ? ’ he whispered in her ear as his fingers continued to blaze fire across her exposed nape . |
| 29 | And this is gon na introduce you to a new word called psychographic and psychographic , you think you 've got , you can break it in two you 've got the psychological aspects and the graphic or mapping , the mapping of the psychology . |
| 30 | We can do all that and I can introduce you to a few people . ’ |