Example sentences of "to me but " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 2 | Steve was a new face to me but Paul I already knew from playing football against him down at the Lillie Road recreation ground . |
| 3 | This prospect is pleasing to me but I have seen Mr Landor and confess myself alarmed . |
| 4 | It seemed a marathon to me but realistically it was roughly one thirty-fifth of a mile , which left thirty-four thirty-fifths still to go . |
| 5 | She never revealed her own secrets to me but then after a while I made no more enquiries — I did n't want to do anything to lose her . ’ |
| 6 | All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything . |
| 7 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 8 | ‘ Good afternoon , Katie , ’ she said to me but she frowned at Frankie and said , ‘ And who is this boy ? ’ |
| 9 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 10 | That 's why this week is so important , not just to me but all the 183 players trying for those cards . ’ |
| 11 | He was n't exactly nasty to me but I was only sixteen and I had n't done many interviews , and I was nervous . |
| 12 | Now that was n't due to me but was John Sainsbury 's initiative on behalf of his family . |
| 13 | For , of all the doctors I observed , the doctor who used the charity format was the most concerned to emphasise the scientific basis of western medicine , not just to me but to her patients also . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to let the critics get to me but over the past year or so I have learned to relax and not worry . |
| 15 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 16 | It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | The Theosophical teachings were all new to me but seemed to be most natural and consistent with normal common sense and logic . |
| 18 | I looked on it as an acknowledgement not just to me but to the programme I represented . |
| 19 | It might mean , it prob er I suppose in a sense that does n't matter very much to me but I suppose it might matter if you 're sixty yeah yeah . |
| 20 | Davies brought a strange quality of Methodist Welsh revivalism to medicine which was unacceptable to me but highly acceptable to a fellow countryman . |
| 21 | as if the person was alive , and wanted to speak to me but could n't . ’ |
| 22 | He was special to me but here was evidence that he was special to a lot of people . |
| 23 | This makes a quirky sense to me but Mikio and I are definitely in the minority here . |
| 24 | He tried to be nice to me but something rebelled inside me . |
| 25 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 26 | And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it . |
| 27 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 28 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 29 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 30 | The prospect did n't appeal to me but , there again , neither did the thought of lounging around Templecombe . |