Example sentences of "force [pn reflx] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local pleasures and pains may be very much alike in both intensifying awareness and contracting it to themselves ; but the difference remains that pain forces itself on awareness against our spontaneous resistance . |
| 2 | This awkwardness which might be successfully exploited by a writer in a different context , forces itself on the reader 's attention , detracting from the force of discreet . |
| 3 | ‘ Only sometimes when I 'm tired it sort of forces itself on my attention . ’ |
| 4 | I recoil at the strength of his putrid breath and yank myself away , but he grabs my waist and throws me upon the bed , pinning my hands down and forcing himself on top of me . |
| 5 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 6 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 7 | Electronic data interchange , or EDI , is another of those information technology concepts that , after politely lurking in the background for a few decades , is suddenly forcing itself on our attention with unmannerly persistence . |
| 8 | Oh , just you try forcing yourself on me again and your world will explode . |
| 9 | This would have no doubt involved stories of my forcing myself on him — something Sarah would have condemned . |
| 10 | I know you did n't want to marry me , but ‘ t is not as though I 'm forcing myself on you ! ’ |
| 11 | If you have a go at reading Hansard , both truths will force themselves on you , piercing the tedium , loquaciousness and tomfoolery of MPs , especially at question time . |
| 12 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 13 | He did n't use them to force himself on me . |
| 14 | Whatever else he might be , instinct told her Nicolo Sabatini was not a man to force himself on a woman . |
| 15 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 16 | The victim said that the policeman had forced himself on her . |
| 17 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 18 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 19 | Old Shallot 's rule : never force yourself on a woman . |
| 20 | ‘ He forced himself on me . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you what happened today — a man I barely know forced himself on me in a snowy field , that 's what happened today . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Forced himself on you ? ’ he echoed . |
| 23 | ‘ But it 's how I feel about these plans , now , after … ’ she faltered a second and then forced herself on ‘ … after everything . |