Example sentences of "treat [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't treat me as a child ! ’ she cried scornfully , ‘ You know that I love you , and that 's why I 'm being packed off . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 3 | I do feel vulnerable when I go out though — people do n't treat me as someone special , they laugh at my size . ’ |
| 4 | Do n't treat me as one . ’ |
| 5 | The implication in all the sexually discriminatory immigration laws ( continued long after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 ) is that women are slaves and chattels in their communities , and the government sees no reason why it should treat them as anything else . |
| 6 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 7 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 8 | Or we can treat them as victims of an insurable risk . |
| 9 | Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world . |
| 10 | It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others . |
| 11 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 12 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 13 | If nothing else , BLOB support ensures that Paradox for DOS is fully compatible with data files created by Paradox for Windows ; and Windows-specific things like OLE links and bitmapped graphics can also be accommodated because , rather cleverly , Paradox 4 will treat them as BLOBs . |
| 14 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 15 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Would the evening 's audience lob the balls back , or would they treat them as collectable souvenirs ? |
| 18 | As long as you live in your parents ' home you are a child , their child , and they will treat you as such . |
| 19 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |
| 20 | ‘ Did n't they treat you as strangers ? ’ |
| 21 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 22 | ‘ What the hell did you expect , that I should treat you as some kind of equal ? |
| 23 | Did he treat you as an equal ? ’ |
| 24 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 25 | She would treat him as a delinquent , a time-waster , a bad child , whose offences could only be petty . |
| 26 | I 'll treat him as someone who needs all my sympathy and understanding . |
| 27 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 28 | He is unique in His person — we can not treat Him as if He was an ordinary human being . |
| 29 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 30 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |