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Example sentences for "nothing for"

  • Besides that, he's a skilful fencer, so there's nothing for it but to trust him.

  • Nothing for a whole week: it is odd, is it not?

  • Nothing for it but to distract her attention.

  • Bar the most strenuous national heroism, there's nothing for it now but the garden city!

  • Nothing for it but to go home and await her coming!

  • You will find out, before very long, that fine sentiments will do nothing for you.

  • Your consolations, father, can do nothing for me.

  • He'll do nothing for me;--nothing at all.

  • And so, Mr. Wharton, you think that you can do nothing for me.

  • He had, therefore, nothing for it, but to go down on his knees distractedly against the sofa, and swear that he did love her with a love passing the love of man.

  • I much fear that I can now do nothing for you in this matter.

  • Then since that may be," said Sancho, "there is nothing for it but to commend ourselves to God, and let fortune take what course it will.

  • However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again.

  • There is nothing for it, when the brain is on fire with the whirling of its wheels, but to spring against the stone wall and silence them with one crash.

  • I shall read what you and other good men write, as I have always done, glad when you speak my thoughts, and skipping the page that has nothing for me.

  • There is nothing for me to be ashamed of in the story I have told.

  • These cousins of his who were his guests cared nothing for him.

  • And there would be nothing for horses, and we could dress very cheap and wear our old things.

  • Beyond these things the world had nothing for him.

  • I want nothing for myself,-- nothing for myself.

  • Ever since I have felt that I could do nothing for Poland, I have longed to live in Vienna, that I might breathe the same atmosphere with your majesty and the Empress Maria Theresa.

  • The elector loves his progeny, and cares little or nothing for Bavaria," continued Joseph.

  • If our king can do nothing for us, at least let him rescue our horses from starvation.

  • Beel was at that time so hard pressed that he could do nothing for him.

  • There's nothing for it but to crush it, destroy it root and branch.

  • There is nothing for it," he cried, "but to destroy it root and branch.

  • No, there is nothing for it but to fall back again till we have a force sufficient to capture the whole city, and utterly defeat its defenders.

  • I have no patience with a young fool who bets on race horses when he knows very well that if they lose there is nothing for him to do but to go to the Jews for money.

  • I had done, every man would draw away from me, and that there would be nothing for me to do but to put a bullet in my head.

  • Well, there will be nothing for me but to get across the Channel unless, as I say, things go right at Goodwood.

  • He had, therefore, nothing for it but to go down on his knees distractedly against the sofa and swear that he did love her with a love passing the love of man.

  • That would be nothing for us four; it is too much for us two.

  • Yes, the Marechal de Grammont is right; this will change the aspect of French affairs, but I much fear it will do nothing for English, even if it does not harm them.

  • But now there is nothing for it but to rid us of her forthright, before the day break.

  • There is nothing for us but to go out to them and see who they are.

  • Then she turned to Ali ben Bekkar and said to him, 'O my lord, passion has not reached this pass with thee, without doing the like with me; but there is nothing for it but to bear patiently what hath befallen us.

  • Then in answer to the unspoken question, "The postman's been, but there's nothing for you.

  • No, there's nothing for you, Mr Careless.

  • Then there is nothing for it but to provide new boards or patch up and re-cover the old ones.

  • But there comes a time when the old fellow succumbs to his arthrodial trouble, and there is nothing for it but to send him to the binder that he may acquire a second youth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    baptize them; bottomed boats; for the most part; native city; nothing about; nothing better; nothing can; nothing doubting; nothing else; nothing except; nothing for; nothing left; nothing less; nothing like; nothing remains; nothing remarkable; nothing shall; nothing that; nothing was; nothing will; quarters inches; rattling good; reign over; steep bank; what while; without any