Example sentences of "except they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 2 | ‘ The dispositions of men are naturally such , that except they be restrained through fear of some coercive power , every man will distrust and dread each other . ’ |
| 3 | The services can be similar to those of orthodox Christianity , except they are led by mediums , and the sermon is often replaced by a seance . |
| 4 | They are fools and liars and will tell you that everyone is entitled to his own opinion , except they will probably say ‘ his or her , ’ so that you do n't feel left out , being a young , firm , tanned and bouncy woman with a mind of fathomlessly inventive depravity , even if you do n't know it yet . |
| 5 | Except they 're hardly children any more ; the wee bastards are twenty-four , so they are . |
| 6 | Everything is the same except they have electricity and water . |
| 7 | Already old pals to a legion of live fans , it wo n't be long before they 're as big as The Levellers , except they 'll be excellent as well — catchy , bright , funny , infectious , everything The Levs are not , really . |
| 8 | They got the lot … except they sound like Edwyn Collins crooning along to MBV with his face pushed up hard against a plate glass window . |
| 9 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 10 | Except they were n't . |
| 11 | They 're the same tails as this lot except they 're up the other way . |
| 12 | Even Trevor said grudgingly : ‘ It was n't too bad , except they did n't give us balloons . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing , except they made a bit of a stir ; their disappearance did . |
| 14 | ‘ I should have liked to be a nun , except they would n't have let me smoke and I could n't live without cigarettes . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's exactly like a Jewish wedding , ’ says Jack , ‘ except they 've forgotten to invite Uncle Hymie and Auntie Rae , the ones who never made it . ’ |
| 16 | You 'd probably find you did n't care about anything except they put rancid butter in your tea … |
| 17 | I mean , they 're real words except they 're not the right ones . |
| 18 | ‘ No , nothing much has happened , except they 've bombed Tel Aviv ’ . |
| 19 | Except they use treble and bass |
| 20 | In essence these are stand-alone management procedures except they are printed on pink paper . |
| 21 | The ventral interradial areas are covered with plates similar to those of the dorsal surface except they tend to be smaller , many also carry rugose spinelets . |
| 22 | He takes their belongings , their horses , then tips their naked corpses into a marsh , except they do n't sink properly . ’ |
| 23 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |
| 24 | Fabulous — and their feet alone were a poem ( English women dress well except they wo n't spend on their feet , says Murray ) . |
| 25 | May no lines pass , except they do their duty |
| 26 | ‘ It 's that Midwestern winter as does it ; I was there in February once I nearly turned up my toes then except they 'd have snapped off … still it 's nice to have a banker dying early . ’ |
| 27 | Except they do n't realise they are hooked . ’ |
| 28 | EXCEPT they wo n't . |
| 29 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
| 30 | Except they 've all had something . |