Example sentences of "have no [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 2 | We have no choice but to love him , nervously . |
| 3 | ‘ Since we have no choice but to pursue it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Since the matter has been raised , sir , I have no choice but to pursue it , ’ explained the lawyer . |
| 5 | ‘ You have no choice but to marry me . ’ |
| 6 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 7 | ‘ You have no choice but to pay it . |
| 8 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 9 | We have no option but to see it as movement from left to right . |
| 10 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 11 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |