Example sentences of "treated [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began .
2 I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there .
3 Many women admired my strength and the men , slightly awed , treated me as an honorary male .
4 The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes .
5 His correspondents agents , theatres , drama groups , journalists , students , teachers — treated him as a major writer and waited to see what he would do next .
6 She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends .
7 They all treated him as a golden idol , and he 'd obviously begun to believe it himself .
8 Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’
9 This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing .
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