Example sentences of "but to [pers pn] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan could not understand the Man 's words but to him they seemed to sound like that . |
| 2 | Lucien grudgingly had to admit that they were first-class vibrancers , but to him they still seemed an insult to the art . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be right in some ways for big stars like Jack Nicholson or William Hurt , but to me they are too old , ’ she said . |
| 4 | They were thirteen or at the most fourteen years old , but to me they were very grand grown-ups . |
| 5 | The last four lines of this sonnet are seldom quoted , but to me they represent Shakespeare at his best , that intimate tone and unforced style of which Angel Day 's account of the personal letter is so apt a description : ‘ the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to another … simple , plaine , and of the lowest and meanest stile ’ — yet how expressive : It is rare , even in his poetry , to find traditional tropes reanimated with such freshness and simplicity . |
| 6 | But to me they 're all heavily set up and contrived . |
| 7 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |