Example sentences of "except [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at University at the time ( showing me age ) at Keele which is right by Stoke-on-Trent ( except no-one knows where the bloody Trent is ) . |
| 2 | No one except someone like Mr Scrooge , the famous Dickens character who used to exclaim ‘ Christmas ! |
| 3 | She threw all of them away except one , then realised how silly and significant it would be to arrive on his doorstep with one daffodil ; she tucked it into the contents of an overflowing litter bin and arrived at Alan 's empty-handed . |
| 4 | The program tells you to turn off your PC , and it encrypts your directory , hiding all the files on your hard disc except one , called Cyborg.Doc . |
| 5 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |
| 6 | All the puppies except one died . |
| 7 | These five were very similar to the Ipswich group ; all except one were women ; all lived alone ; only one had a closely involved relative ( and like the similar Ipswich case it was a working daughter who needed help to care for her mother when she was unavailable ) . |
| 8 | All except one had good mobility ; none was incontinent ; none wandered from home . |
| 9 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 10 | Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim . |
| 11 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 12 | In the beds , children slept , except one who tossed restlessly to and fro . |
| 13 | Of the fifteen rotary controls that adorn the S120 's front panel , all except one is dual function . |
| 14 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 15 | When I say humanism , I mean with no belief in anything except one 's existence from , I suppose , oneself . |
| 16 | Out of the seven Africans who now took over as Ministers , all except one were Cpp members : the odd man out was J.A . |
| 17 | However , when the chiefs went into tribal lands to ask their views about the agreement , they received an emphatic direction , in every case except one , that the chiefs should reject the agreement and have nothing to do with it . |
| 18 | None gave more than 13 hours to Language in Education ( except one which listed the whole 120 ) , and several gave none ( but unlike with the English tutors , this was generally recognised as a separate area ) . |
| 19 | He complained , not at length : ‘ This was the first time , and except one , the last , that I found any reason to complain of a Scotish [ sic ] table , and such disappointments , I suppose , must be expected in every country , where there is no great frequence of travellers . ’ |
| 20 | The game continues until all the goats except one have been caught . |
| 21 | For them no one else in the programme existed — except one And since that happened to be another woman , she had to be remarkable and she certainly was . |
| 22 | People going around wiping data stores-all except one — because they said Ardakkeans were super-beings ? |
| 23 | It was like Doctor Jekyll 's first will in every way — except one . |
| 24 | She has n't any friends , except one who is bad for her , and she wo n't mix with other young people . |
| 25 | The bodies lay north and south , heads to the north and all except one were buried face downwards , the skulls being in good condition but the bones decayed . |
| 26 | Every Labour Government , except one , since 1929 , has doubled unemployment , and the exception increased unemployment by only 50 per cent . |
| 27 | We were both delighted that we got every question correct except one little word . |
| 28 | Down the middle there was a row of desks , all empty except one . |
| 29 | All patients except one were women , aged between 24 and 59 years , who received low total doses of gold salts ( 74–485 mg ) before recognition of enterocolitis . |
| 30 | Of those who shared , all except one made some attempt to clean the syringe and 83% always cleaned shared equipment . |