Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [indef pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the place where we saw the 1:1,000,000 map , but there were none for sale , and in general the airfield was pretty sleepy . |
| 2 | Auxilliary nurses do not go on any courses so there were none for him to take . |
| 3 | There was nothing for it : I would have to run away . |
| 4 | There was nothing for it |
| 5 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 6 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 7 | There was nothing for him but a painful irony in their raucous clamour . |
| 8 | But there was nothing for filmmakers to do but plunge on , grab every chance that came their way and hope for the best . |
| 9 | There was nothing for it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but to attempt a take-off and try to make for Tobruk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was nothing for white people in Dhang : just a cluster of shops and shacks ; stalls at the side of the road leading from the station ; a bicycle repair shop ; little wooden shops on stilts which sold biscuits , cigarettes and sweets . |
| 16 | There was nothing for it . |
| 17 | Incidentally , there was nothing for him from Paris this month . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was nothing for it but to persevere . |
| 21 | So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks . |
| 22 | There was nothing for girls , only drudgery and breeding , specially paupers like herself . |
| 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 . |