Example sentences of "[pron] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 2 | There was nothing for it |
| 3 | Incidentally , I am not sure that Cameron should admit this fact since it will make anyone who wants to buy her movie positively glow with pleasure at the thought of paying her practically nothing for it . |
| 4 | There 's nothing for it but to clamber , wheezing and bursting of heart , up the steep steps ( 300 and more ) of one of the deepest shafts of the Underground to air and freedom . |
| 5 | There was nothing for it . |
| 6 | There was nothing for it , Mungo thought , but to follow Vic as often as possible , in the hope that he would lead the way to a solution . |
| 7 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 8 | Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 9 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 10 | There was nothing for it but to try to make their way on foot out of the town and walk back to the rendezvous with Robin Gurdon . |
| 11 | There was nothing for it . |
| 12 | That avenue was obviously closed to us and there was nothing for it but to go en masse to Jimmy Coutts and lay our case before him . |
| 13 | This was a disaster of some magnitude , and there was nothing for it but to seek the man out and tell him what had happened . |
| 14 | There was nothing for it but to persevere . |
| 15 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 16 | So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing for it but to try this . ’ |
| 18 | There was nothing for it but to go with him . |
| 19 | Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it . |
| 20 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 21 | There was nothing for it but to flee . |
| 22 | There was nothing for it but to try again . |
| 23 | Nothing for it . |
| 24 | There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand . |
| 25 | There was nothing for it now but to try the undertakers themselves . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 . |
| 27 | But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed . |
| 28 | BETTER EXERCISE Nothing for it but to have a jolly good workout lifting one 's leg . |
| 29 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 30 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |