Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] except [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 2 | In civil cases , the court has had no role in directing the course of the proceedings except on the application of one or other party . |
| 3 | There were no lights except in the downstairs rooms , so he had learned to hold his breath against the muddy darkness to prevent it reaching into his lungs to suffocate him . |
| 4 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's an upper berth in a section , ’ she said slowly , ‘ but it only has a curtain , and no facilities except at the end of the car , and it 's hardly what Xanthe 's used to . ’ |