Example sentences of "except that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 2 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 3 | She smiled at him a little wildly , not knowing what to say except that it seemed best to keep on talking . |
| 4 | Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination . |
| 5 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |