Example sentences of "there [was/were] [pron] for it " in BNC.

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1 There was nothing for it : I would have to run away .
2 There was nothing for it
3 There was nothing for it .
4 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 .
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 There was nothing for it .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 There was nothing for it but to persevere .
13 So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks .
14 There was nothing for it but to go with him .
15 Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it .
16 There was nothing for it but to flee .
17 There was nothing for it but to try again .
18 There was nothing for it but to attempt to dig them out by hand .
19 There was nothing for it now but to try the undertakers themselves .
20 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 .
21 But there was nothing for it , she would have to be killed .
22 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 .
23 There was nothing for it but to await events …
24 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 .
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 was nothing for it to work on .
29 Naturally I never thought the daft sod would , and so there was nothing for it , I had to do likewise and follow him , a/2 la buff , into the showers .
30 Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms .
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