Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] it to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I liken it to an opposition party in a parliament , or a critical press ; acting as a consclence and a brake , but not in power and unlikely to assume it . |
| 2 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 3 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 4 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 5 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 6 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 7 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |