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Meanings of do except in English

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Usage of do except in English
1
It was a business after his own heart-nothingto do except wait.
King Rat
2
There was nothing for him to do except sit in a deck-chair.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
3
There was nothing to do except a little improvement of the shelters.
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
4
There was nothing else I could do except just let him go!
Spike
5
I do n't know what to do except to stare back at him.
Unravel Me
6
There's no distractions, there's nothing to do except just make a record.
Radio NZ
7
Then there was nothing to do except sit and wait for more.
Psmith in the City
8
Nothing much to do except dress up for this fellow at dinner-time.
Tales of the Jazz Age
9
What can I do except live within the bounda­ries of my mind?
I’m With the Band
10
If you had anything to do except to look divinely, we'd quarrel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 / A Maga...
11
By then, there was nothing to do except care for the survivors.
Alas, Babylon
12
But what could the chiefs do except hunt farther and fight harder?
The Trail Book
13
What else is there for me to do except live her life?
Woken furies
14
What, indeed, was there for me to do except to await developments?
Wolves of the Sea / Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manusc...
15
He could think of nothing to do except to run, run, run!
The Tale of Tommy Fox
16
With nothing much to do except think, she stared long at the fire.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
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Do except through the time
Do except across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common