Example sentences of "no [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are the only witness to deal with a vital issue then you will have no alternative but to call them . |
| 2 | A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse . |
| 3 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 4 | In the circumstances we feel the police had no alternative but to shoot it . |
| 5 | She had no alternative but to tell him a series of absolute whoppers , as her younger brother , Rob , would have said . |
| 6 | When she stepped into the helicopter in front of me , I had no alternative but to follow her with my heart in my boots . |
| 7 | And they were had no alternative but to accept it . |
| 8 | The Church has no alternative but to condemn him , excommunicate and reject him , as Pope Leo put it , ‘ having regard to the safety of his soul ’ , the pope expressing the hope that in return Coenwulf would be more generous to the Church of St Peter than Offa had been . |
| 9 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 10 | We have no choice but to love him , nervously . |
| 11 | The pressure of his hand increased as he moved nearer to her , so that she had no choice but to let him tip her face up to his . |
| 12 | But if she persists in what she is saying about him now , he will have no choice but to insist she goes . |
| 13 | The archbishop of Canterbury was convinced , however , and the English bishops acquiesced , leaving Henry no choice but to support them as he had promised . |
| 14 | There had been no choice but to kill him again . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've no choice but to sell it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This was her moment , and she knew she had no choice but to take it . |
| 18 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 19 | They just behave like absolute pricks so that the ladies have no choice but to drop them if they have any self-respect . |
| 20 | And you had no choice but to tell him . |
| 21 | ‘ Since we have no choice but to pursue it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Since the matter has been raised , sir , I have no choice but to pursue it , ’ explained the lawyer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 25 | Captain Manvell was plainly astonished at Lord John 's swift collapse , even disgusted by the cowardice , but had no choice but to accept it . |
| 26 | ‘ You have no choice but to pay it . |
| 27 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 28 | ‘ You have no choice but to marry me . ’ |
| 29 | If people refuse to move ( despite inducements ) the employer may have no option but to dismiss them . |
| 30 | For reasons best known to himself Carr kicked the legs from under Murray , leaving referee Brian White with no option but to order him off . |