"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

motive sustantivo

sustantivo + motive

Kolokacji: 3

profit motive • revenge motive • base motive

motive + verbo

Kolokacji: 13

motive appears • motive seems • motive includes • motive varies • motive prompts • ...

verbo + motive

Kolokacji: 14

question one's motives • understand one's motives • explain one's motives • see motives • reveal one's motives • ...

Kolokacji: 3

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

Kolokacji: 4

1. question one's motives = pytanie czyjś motywy question one's motives

2. suspect one's motives = podejrzewać czyjś motywy suspect one's motives

3. discuss one's motives = dyskutować czyjś motywy discuss one's motives

4. speculate on one's motives = spekulować czyjś motywy speculate on one's motives

One can only speculate on the Government's motives in doing this.
It is not straight history however, Cercas "enters people's minds and speculates on their motives."
One can only speculate on her motives for coming out.
He declined to speculate on the Libyans' motives in the encounter.
"Far be it from me to speculate on God's motives."
And I'm not here to speculate on his motives or put myself in the middle of your family business.
"I do not speculate on our customers and their motives," MacDonald said.
The police in Miami declined to speculate on the killers' motives.
I can't begin to speculate on his personal motives.
Mr. Bowers says he has speculated on his nemesis's motives, without coming up with a convincing theory.

Kolokacji: 7

(3) explain, reveal, discover

Kolokacji: 3

adjetivo + motive

Kolokacji: 93

ulterior motive • political motive • possible motive • real motive • true motive • ...

preposición + motive

Kolokacji: 13

of one's motives • about one's motives • on one's motives • with motives • for motives • ...

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