Example sentences of "be nothing for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 4 | There 's nothing for it . |
| 5 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nothing for it when you reach the Point of No Return — except to come back . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 9 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 10 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 11 | There was nothing for it |
| 12 | There was nothing for it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was nothing for it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was nothing for it but to persevere . |
| 22 | So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks . |
| 23 | There was nothing for it but to go with him . |
| 24 | Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it . |
| 25 | There was nothing for it but to flee . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it but to try again . |
| 27 | There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand . |
| 28 | There was nothing for it now but to try the undertakers themselves . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed . |