"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 • ...
(3) explain, reveal, discover
Kolokacji: 3
1. explain one's motives = wyjaśniać czyjś motywy explain one's motives
2. reveal one's motives = wyjawiać czyjś motywy reveal one's motives
  • Only her father knows why, but he is unable to publicly reveal his daughter's motives.
  • Ahlen talks to Helga, who reveals her motives to have been loneliness and frustration.
  • Then this new version of "Hearts Afire" begins to reveal its ulterior motives.
  • After the killing of two Palestinian collaborators this week, a man who aided the occupiers reveals his motives and what his future may hold.
  • Chapters told from Strathmore's perspective reveal his motives.
  • She refused to reveal her motives for leaving the industry, explaining it concerned other people as well.
  • There, he revealed his motives for the hijacking.
  • There is a flashback which reveals Vel's motives.
  • Carpenter finally reveals their motives, methods, and the men.
  • The Oracles partially reveal their motives but stop when they realize the 'remote control' is really just a radiation detector.
3. discover one's motives = odkrywać czyjś motywy discover one's motives
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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