Example sentences of "[pron] except the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 2 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 3 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 4 | Everything except the real world , of course . |
| 5 | This is the area of Mývatn famous in the guidebooks for everything except the bleeding obvious — the stench . |
| 6 | We remembered everything except the all-important commodity to get the lot home . ’ |
| 7 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 8 | I had suddenly lost interest in everything except the huge , wonderful rocking-horse , on which I was placed , reins in my hands . |
| 9 | And it was Sky 's fault that the match commentators chose to talk about anything and everything except the horrendous football on display . |
| 10 | Industry was like that in Glasgow , but with disadvantages in everything except the local labour supply . |
| 11 | This morning , inattentive to everything except the rhythmic ruffle of her rake in the fine gravel , and to the notes of the song she was la-la-ing quietly to herself as she worked , she did not notice Nicandra 's arrival , nor see her as she slipped round the corner of the house and pushed her way through the low branches of the Portugal laurels that screened Silly-Willie 's window from inquisitive visitors . |
| 12 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 13 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 14 | I 'd make a new one except the only rubber I 've got is in the sole of my boot . ’ |
| 15 | It would be a neat ploy , wasting our time , confusing the investigation and diverting suspicion from everyone except the early arrivals . " |
| 16 | Everyone in the cinema , everyone except the five youths , jumps and screams . |
| 17 | As the floor numbering system at all modern universities is totally unintelligible to everyone except the drug-crazed mathematician who thought it up , I just followed my nose . |
| 18 | Nothing in sex will concern me except the pure physical pleasure ; I shall be incapable of love , of Don Juan 's pride of conquest , even of caring whether the woman is pleased or bored with my company . |
| 19 | He looked in the shed but there was nothing except the dank smell of bare , sour soil . |
| 20 | Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window . |
| 21 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 22 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 23 | Rooks cawed as they foraged hungrily for food but , apart from that , nothing except the eerie , deathly silence of a countryside in the grip of winter . |
| 24 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 25 | In the silence that followed he heard an owl hoot , and then nothing , nothing except the harsh sound of someone sobbing . |
| 26 | ‘ I think all of them except the dark bay . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 28 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 29 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 30 | Even when they were nt winning anything except the occasional FA Cup there was hype . |