Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 14 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 15 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 18 | ‘ Then perhaps you can assist me on a minor point of methodology ? ’ |
| 19 | Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television ? |
| 20 | IF you have valuables insure them with a special student scheme . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Flittern said , folding himself onto the bench beside her , ‘ we could perhaps tempt you with a bottled rogue amorous thought , distilled at the first quarter of the moon , and salted with a spark of starlight . |
| 24 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 25 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 27 | Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
| 29 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 30 | And then I said well I will buy it as a joint sort of joint family Christmas present |