Example sentences of "forced [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government .
2 But deteriorating internal conditions forced them to increase the subsidy in 1985 to 20 per cent , and to promise prompt payment ( Kenya , 1986 , p. 96 ) .
3 A cliff forced me to cross the river , and several scrambles led to a corner and the sudden revelation of the falls : a long mare 's tail , akin to Kinlochleven 's , and utterly different from the one in Stott .
4 And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects .
5 Then he produced his gun and forced me to provide the car .
6 When his unfortunate eye injury forced him to quit the game early in 1991 , he had learned his trade and was offered a full-time job .
7 The former Old Trafford favourite has n't been idle since a knee injury forced him to quit the game nearly two years ago .
8 Savage vividly remembers the incident which forced him to quit the game .
9 At least by the time he received a freak , soccer-kickabout leg injury last month that forced him to miss the Test against South Africa , he had enjoyed a double-try England debut against Canada .
10 Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness .
11 In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening .
12 A CONVICTED sex attacker who kidnapped a six-year-old girl from a playground was jailed for two years yesterday after a top judge said the law forced him to disregard the man 's long criminal record .
13 It crossed his mind that an hour earlier , receiving this news , he could have cut off Siward 's escape from the field and forced him to finish the battle .
14 ( 5 ) I forced him to tell the truth .
15 Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job .
16 White then forced her to drive the couple to the Barrow Wake beauty spot at Birdlip Hill in Gloucestershire .
17 In a clear reference to the claim that the Queen forced her to undertake the visit he shouted : ‘ Are you really happy to be here , ma'am ? ’
18 Eventually the accumulation of it forced her to break the silence .
19 Rising inflation , a weakening economy and a growing budget deficit further lowered the government 's credibility ; its austerity programme fuelled added protests and forced it to concede the indexation of wages to inflation .
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