Example sentences of "[pers pn] except [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing poor about me except for trying to live on my measly eleven bob a day . |
| 2 | Bogey trying to prevent me except for two H. |
| 3 | We paid her my first big visit in Brooklyn , she had n't met me except on the phone . |
| 4 | He has n't spoken to me except in anger for nine years ! ’ |
| 5 | It is linguistically unacceptable to apply them except on grounds which would always lead to further application of them in all similar cases . |
| 6 | Pain and suffering — what did suffering mean to them except as a path to purity ? ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps there are not enough players available to play on them ; perhaps there is no one to unlock them except at peak periods ; then there are courts taken out during the winter and one of the major reasons in this country is damage by vandals . |
| 8 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 9 | Perhaps surprisingly , even today most of these metals are still of considerable importance and few ‘ new ’ metals have superseded them except for certain specialised uses ; one metal unknown to the ancients which is used in large quantities today is aluminium . |
| 10 | Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses . |
| 11 | Firstly there are undertakings to maintain the confidentiality of business secrets and not to use them except for limited purposes . |
| 12 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 13 | Furthermore , because of the uncompromising nature of the posthumously-published works , it will probably always be hard for most readers to understand them except after reading The Lord of the Rings . |
| 14 | The individuals most concerned on these three occasions do not usually instigate them except in the case of the marriage . |
| 15 | There were many famous examples , but little is left of any of them except in such cities as Rhodes , where some twentieth century excavations and restoration have been carried out . |
| 16 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 17 | Now , hundreds of Iron Age sites are known from the area and the ‘ way ’ has no direct connection with any of them except by accident . |
| 18 | Many smaller listed companies are controlled by their directors or their family interests , making it impossible for an outsider to bid for them except by way of an agreed offer which is accepted by the controlling shareholders . |
| 19 | He 's not saying , you know , you will suffer for them except by humiliation . |
| 20 | You had no business to talk to her except through a qualified Steward … |
| 21 | The abbot can scarcely let him out to her except with guarantees for his return . ’ |
| 22 | Apart from reviews , nothing seemed to have been written about her except for a sympathetic article by Richard Strachey in the London Mercury . |
| 23 | He grinned and released her except for one hand , of which he kept tight hold . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly Ace had little time for her except for her job as fuel technician as the run-up to the race started , but Kate had forgotten the media . |
| 25 | In any event , I have no recollection of ever having had any differences with her except on one occasion when she telephoned me to make a request with which I was unable to comply . |
| 26 | The lady has , so far as I know , done no harm in the Lords — no one having seen her except on one occasion when she went there to lunch — and she has yet to make her maiden speech . |
| 27 | I think , actually , that she was always a snake during the daylight hours , which is why I never saw her except at night . |
| 28 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 29 | How could I refuse her except by saying my death was so probable that I could not allow such a sacrifice ? |
| 30 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |