Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crushed , however , at the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 by Otto I , they were forced to turn inwards to the settlement of the Danubian plain . |
| 2 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
| 3 | ‘ When I injured my shoulder ( she was forced to return home from the Federation Cup and had to miss a couple of tournaments ) I could n't do anything . |
| 4 | President Ibrahim Babangida was forced to return early from the Commonwealth heads of government meeting as a result of the crisis . |
| 5 | However on this occasion a Swordfish ( P4232 ‘ A ’ ) was lost when Lt. N.K. Cambell 's aircraft was hit by A.A. fire and he was forced to ditch just off the coast ; he and his observer managed to swim ashore , and were subsequently captured , but the TAG , P.O. ( A ) W.G.T. Welsh succumbed to injuries sustained . |
| 6 | The family was forced to flee ahead of the Russian advance in 1916 , and eventually settled in Vienna , where Erika learned her first card game , Preference , common in central Europe at the time . |
| 7 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 8 | In the event , the plane was forced to land midway between the two cities anyway . |