Example sentences of "[conj] there [was/were] [pron] for it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 5 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 10 | Then , as she passed the door of the room where the dancing was , Robert appeared , and there was nothing for it but to repeat Dawn 's message . |
| 11 | But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed . |
| 12 | We were well aware of him stifling cries of pain , but there was nothing for it but to proceed . |