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Example sentences for "except what"

  • Marry not women whom your fathers have had to wife (except what is already past): for this is uncleanness, and an abomination, and an evil way.

  • Whatever is predicated of God, of whatever genus it be, becomes the divine substance, except what pertains to the relation.

  • Therefore He cannot do except what He does.

  • Therefore God cannot do except what He does.

  • But you, who set before yourselves another end except what is right and honourable, will not be able to find out where your principle of duty and action is to originate.

  • For, except the three sects which exclude virtue from the chief good, this opinion must be maintained by all philosophers, and above all by us, who do not rank anything whatever among goods except what is honourable.

  • I knitted for Mr. Sinclair, except what I got orders to knit from the south.

  • So far as I know, none of the tenants delivered any of their fish to us except what we get at present.

  • Yes, except what I had received in cash before.

  • In fact he is not to allow anything to go into the settlement, except what is provided for in the agreement.

  • Congress could thereafter be said to possess no power to admit new States, except what depended on a doubtful construction of the Articles of Confederation.

  • I have nothing to say, sir, I believe, except what I have said.

  • None of those days, except what I told you as having occurred on Thursday.

  • Therefore we had them all on this side, except what was on the hill.

  • What never was seen, or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction.

  • I know of nothing in its neighbourhood which may endanger a ship, except what is distinctly visible.

  • No, except what Mr. Burke read to me affecting myself, and which Sir William Stawell has read to me this morning.

  • We found no water all the way, except what I have mentioned above, so that, as you may imagine, we ran rather short towards the end of our journey, having not quite half a pint left between us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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