Example sentences of "it but [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 2 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 3 | Sometimes , especially in Romantic music , I tell the orchestra , ‘ Now play everything as you played it but play a 4/4 bar . |
| 4 | BETTER EXERCISE Nothing for it but to have a jolly good workout lifting one 's leg . |
| 5 | So that 's that 's the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while you 're writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what you 've written up . |
| 6 | As we started the long walk back across the tundra to Camp Bell , we decided that there was nothing for it but to establish a base camp at the foot of the cliffs . |