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Example sentences for "except that"

  • There we got along tolerably together, except that I found they had no notion of going with me: I must go with them, wherever they chose to lead me.

  • I do not know that there is anything else to which I need direct your attention, except that I have not noted my quarter's salary because ignorant of the rate of exchange.

  • We have resolved to print the work precisely the same in shape and size as the copy entrusted to my charge, except that we shall substitute single for double columns.

  • Except that it is a fire,' said Tom, 'it looks to me as stupid and blank as everything else looks.

  • I am as worthless a dog as you will find, except that I am not false - not false.

  • Not a single insect was obtained, except that on the talus at one of the other quarries I picked up a poorly preserved beetle, apparently the Nitidula melanaria of Heer.

  • Of course, at the time, no particular attention had been drawn to this insect, except that it refused to suck blood when tempted that morning.

  • Their spectra appear to be prevailingly of the solar type, except that a very small proportion contain some bright lines in addition to the continuous spectrum.

  • There is nothing more to say that I know of, except that I am just going to start for the new lodging, with a box directed in my new name.

  • Except that we are both light, her face and hair and my face and hair are as unlike each other as possible.

  • How it was all to end (except that it was certain to end badly) no human creature could say.

  • I can make nothing out of him, except that he persists in wanting to see you.

  • Mrs Nickleby, 'yes; nobody says anything against him, except that I think he is the weakest and most foolish man I ever knew.

  • This comprises all I need say on the subject; except that if I had seen occasion, I had resolved to reprint a few of these details of legal proceedings, from certain old newspapers.

  • For it was a valley which all animals avoided, even the beasts of prey, except that a species of ugly, thick, green serpent came here to die when they became old.

  • He speaketh not: except that he ever saith Yea to the world which he created: thus doth he extol his world.

  • Behind all these there came a man of thirty, a very personable fellow, except that when he looked, his eyes turned in a little one towards the other.

  • All this was done very promptly, and under sail we ran more than eight miles an hour without any fear, except that of coming across some vessel out on a roving expedition.

  • No other part of my command was engaged at all, except that as described before.

  • There was no undue loss of life in reaching the lower end of Monterey, except that sustained by Garland's command.

  • I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through.

  • Up to this time my regiment had not been carried in the school of the soldier beyond the company drill, except that it had received some training on the march from Springfield to the Illinois River.

  • But I will say no more; except that I hope Mrs. Hooker is pretty well pleased.

  • If I were to rewrite now my Coral book there is hardly a sentence I should have to alter, except that I ought to have attributed more effect to recent volcanic action in checking growth of coral.

  • I didn't think any more of the business, except that it had cured me of wanting to be sea-sick.

  • I know nothing of Mr Brand's opinions, except that he's a good democrat, which is more than I can say of some o' your friends.

  • But my eyes, good as they are, could make out nothing of the text or title, except that I had a very strong impression that that book was not written in the English tongue.

  • There did not seem to me to be the slightest objection to this arrangement, except that my boots were muddy, and my coat of the morning sort.

  • What difference does it make to me that she stumbled in the dark and hurt herself--except that my heart is so much more tender to her it aches?

  • That's all, except that he is reading my resignation by this time.

  • You may say anything you like about me, Miss Frome, except that I'm not grateful for the lift aboard you gave me this afternoon," Jeff answered.

  • It had been a saddening experience, but fortunate, for all that, inasmuch as nothing serious had come of it, except that he was greatly sobered.

  • I can't see what difference it makes what a fellow is--except that in one business a man makes more than in another.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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