Example sentences of "was forced [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admired them duly and was forced to join in with a chorus of auld lang syne downstairs . |
| 2 | Barry , assistant manager at Perry 's brasserie in Beaumont Street , was forced to drive back to the bar in his own car and ordered to open the safe . |
| 3 | Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant . |
| 4 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |
| 5 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 6 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 7 | At the same time , many inner-city slums were knocked down , so part of the growing post-war population was forced to move out of the central urban areas . |
| 8 | For this reason , Handy was forced to sell out in the late 1960s . |
| 9 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 10 | To clear this last hurdle I was forced to queue up outside a shed with a number of soldiers . |
| 11 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 12 | She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation . |
| 13 | It can only get tougher for the tourists when they face a resurgent Wales at the Arms Park on Saturday , although home hopes of upsetting the world champions were delivered a huge blow yesterday , when Swansea full-back Tony Clement was forced to pull out with a stress fracture of the leg . |
| 14 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 15 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 16 | Crosby reassured Byrne yesterday after the Republic of Ireland marksman was forced to pull out of the international squad with a calf injury that will sideline him for a fortnight . |
| 17 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 18 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |