Example sentences of "forced [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though their losses forced them to merge before the end of the year , the assumptions on which TV had been organized could never be quite the same again . |
| 2 | They were to suffer still further as their captors immediately stripped them of everything , even their boots , and forced them to march to the Turkish camp . |
| 3 | When Coca Cola tried to tinker with the taste of Coke an outraged public forced them to return to the original . |
| 4 | Something forced me to go to the orchard . |
| 5 | Mr Notice , 32 , of Welling , Kent , undefeated before detached retinas forced him to retire from the ring , appeared before a special magistrates ' court in Reigate , Surrey . |
| 6 | Though no world-beater in the trailblazing Thompson mould , he emerged as Britain 's number one decathlete last summer , taking the bronze medal at the World Student Games in Sheffield and claiming the sole British place for the World Championships in Tokyo , where a hamstring tear forced him to withdraw on the eve of competition . |
| 7 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 8 | With Waqar on Pakistan 's tour of England , Bryson will open the bowling with Martin Bicknell for whom this is an important summer after a winter operation on his left shoulder forced him to withdraw from the England A tour . |
| 9 | Finaly the heat from the fire began to burn Yanto 's left side and forced him to roll off the still inert Molly . |
| 10 | Fleetingly , because the wailing sirens outside forced him to think of the realities of the moment . |
| 11 | Hubert Walter 's death in 1205 forced him to transfer to the household of Bishop Jocelin of Wells [ q.v. ] , again as steward . |
| 12 | Another would-be Tory rebel , Walter Sweeney , who has an ultra-slim majority of 19 — Britain 's smallest — accused Central Office of ‘ hitting below the belt ’ when they forced him to abstain in the vote . |
| 13 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |
| 14 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |