Example sentences of "[pron] for [pron] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour . |
| 2 | She felt nothing for him but forgiveness . |
| 3 | ‘ My plane is nothing for me but a flying machine gun , ’ he said , and he was a fantastic marksman . |
| 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 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was nothing for it but to persevere . |
| 12 | So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing for it but to try this . ’ |
| 14 | There was nothing for it but to go with him . |
| 15 | There was nothing for it but to flee . |
| 16 | There was nothing for it but to try again . |
| 17 | There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | BETTER EXERCISE Nothing for it but to have a jolly good workout lifting one 's leg . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was nothing for it but to await events … |
| 23 | There was nothing for it but for the two young men themselves to go to Lucy 's aid so , clearing their minds of any impure notions , they darted forward and seized her humming body , one by the shoulders , the other by the knees . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Later , Hazel had said that there was nothing for it but to cross the open pasture and under Silver 's direction they had crossed it , with Dandelion running ahead to reconnoitre . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it but to accept defeat , which he did with an ill grace , stamping off in disgust followed by the jeers of the crowd and several small boys who ran behind him mimicking his rolling gait . |
| 27 | There was nothing for it but to tell her the truth . |
| 28 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 29 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 30 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |