Example sentences of "but to [pron] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucien grudgingly had to admit that they were first-class vibrancers , but to him they still seemed an insult to the art . |
| 2 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 3 | Some runners talk in mystical terms of a ‘ high ’ , but to me it simply resembles a perfect golf swing or tennis shot when you hit straight through the ball without any thought or any inhibition , and the result is invariably perfect . |
| 4 | But to me it just seems wrong to have the government involved in any kind of censorship or questions of taste . |
| 5 | It is of type F5 , and theoretically should be yellowish , but to me it always looks pure white . |
| 6 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 7 | thing , but to me it always looked like a barracks |
| 8 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |