Sentence examples for except for two things from inspiring English sources
Which might be comforting, except for two things.
And that would have ended it, except for two things.
Except for two things that happened to her on Christmas Eve, Pearl Lusk had been pleased with New York ever since she came to the city to seek her fortune, and she told everybody so.
The current painting is an exact duplicate in every way except for two things: it is painted on canvas instead of plaster & the direction of the brush strokes is not the same, as da Vinci was left-handed.
Nothing remarkable about that except for two things: We never watch television when we eat except for "60 Minutes" and, by the way, my parents did the exact same thing 40 years ago when I was 14.
"I know that I am thus exposed to the criticism of the Scottish beadle who remarked of a visiting minister's sermon that it was fine except for three things: first, it was read; second, it wasn't well read; and third, it wasn't worth reading," he said, trilling his R's, as usual.
Paul's historical dumbness would have been laughable except for four things.
It all would sound about as realistic as creating a faery wolde downtown, except for three things.
Except for one thing: I was impaled!
(He liked New York, he said, except for one thing.
