Example sentences of "treat [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | treat everyone as a temporary language helper . |
| 2 | The manager and waiters treat them to a respectful embalming . |
| 3 | Petrie thought John a little embarrassed to see them , but they were taken to watch rehearsals and John took them in his Mercedes to Alsace-Lorraine to show them museums and other sights , and treat them to a memorable dinner . |
| 4 | When the boots are dry , treat them with a proprietary wax , such as Nikwax or Granger 's G-Wax — both of these are recommended by the major boot manufacturers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And even so , they treat you as a likely criminal . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the record , ’ Rowland sighs , ‘ is about other people 's perceptions of you and how if enough people treat you in a certain way that 's what you become after a while . |
| 8 | There is an important point here : ancient accounts of Greek relations with Carthage often treat her as a barbarian power whose dealings with the Greeks were uniformly hostile . |
| 9 | She might have taken on a job as a waitress for the summer , but she was damned if she was going to let people treat her like a mindless robot because of it . |
| 10 | It 's important that if you do get an ache or a strain , treat it with a specialised spray similar to what trainers use with injured athletes which can either heat up an area or cool it rapidly , bringing relief . |
| 11 | It 's important that if you do get an ache or a strain , treat it with a specialised spray similar to those trainers use with injured athletes which can either heat up an area or cool it rapidly , bringing relief . |
| 12 | ‘ My Lords , I have already disclaimed the intention of discussing the scope of the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman but , even if I treat it as a general rule , there are many indications in favour of a liberal attitude towards the exceptions contemplated but not spelt out by Lord Diplock . |
| 13 | Fine if you could chop it away from feeling and treat it as a mere sensation . |
| 14 | Thus if we can categorize or anchor information , we can also do the opposite : we can particularize information and treat it as a special case , thereby negating , or criticizing , a strategy of categorization . |
| 15 | ‘ Treat it as a big joke . |
| 16 | If you 're an average handicap golfer , treat yourself to a matched set like the majority of amateurs and professionals and forget the exceptions . |
| 17 | Treat yourself to a complete top-to-toe a week before the wedding . |
| 18 | ‘ Treat yourself to a nice lunch , and go to bed ? |
| 19 | Treat yourself to a special evening of entertainment — whether it be hiring a video you 've been meaning to watch , going to the cinema or theatre , or just visiting a friend . |
| 20 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |