Sentence examples for except to pass from inspiring English sources

ALTHOUGH Beau Frank had rented for seven years in Manhattan, he had never been to another borough, except to pass through.

After army service he found his way to Oxford, where he studied law, which he never used except to pass his bar exam.

Here, then, is our attempt at public service, lessons you might learn in charm school at Lime Rock. 1. Keep right except to pass.

This rule is not, by the way, "keep right except to pass unless you happen to think you're going fast enough, and, after all, it is the speed limit and what's wrong with that nut behind you and let's just see how angry she gets if I don't move".

I can't improve on the observations of our editor-in-chief (see page 11) except to pass along a comment that Jeffrey Everett, the president and chief investment officer of Templeton Global Advisors, which has $50 billion in assets, made in a visit to our offices in late June: "It's a few bad apples spoiling things for companies that are doing a good job.

Talking doesn't really help, except to pass the time.

My wife, Margaret, always had a well-decorated Christmas tree in the living room, and so long as we were living on the 14th floor of a Central Park West co-op it was not really visible through the windows, except to passing pigeons.

The keep-right-except-to-pass rule is the premise of our work, but the proposed model is also applicable in countries like Britain where vehicles run on the left.

If Obama acts, it almost guarantees that the House is not going to act for the next two years, except maybe to pass some sort of protest bill that'll die in the Senate.

Having egregiously misread the plot, Tarloff goes on amply to excerpt from erotic passages in my novel, on which excerpts I would comment except that merely to pass my eyes over them brings on such ardor as to leave me immobilized.

Characteristically, he turns his academic triumph into an indictment of the system — that success in examinations proves nothing except the ability to pass examinations, and that other, much worthier, et cetera — but he glides over the sheer extraordinariness of his facility.