Example sentences of "forced [pers pn] [to-vb] the " 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 | Frostbite forced them to abandon the expedition.In 1988 and 1989 they were defeated by freak weather conditions . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then he produced his gun and forced me to provide the car . |
| 7 | Then a stitch stabbed my ribs and forced me to walk the next few yards . |
| 8 | The raider forced him to open the safe and fled with cash . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The former Old Trafford favourite has n't been idle since a knee injury forced him to quit the game nearly two years ago . |
| 11 | Savage vividly remembers the incident which forced him to quit the game . |
| 12 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Kerr was Millwall 's leading scorer and a contender for Player of the Year until an ankle injury forced him to miss the closing weeks of last season . |
| 15 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 16 | In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) I forced him to tell the truth . |
| 21 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 22 | White then forced her to drive the couple to the Barrow Wake beauty spot at Birdlip Hill in Gloucestershire . |
| 23 | Vanessa Thompson , who lives in Brussels , decided to make the study when her husband 's job forced her to leave the pretty village where she lived for eight years . |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | Eventually the accumulation of it forced her to break the silence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Throughout the day there was torrential rain , but despite this everybody mucked in ( literally ) and worked very hard until late in the afternoon when the weather finally forced us to stop the good work . |
| 28 | Coming out of Beckley a wandering Triumph Herald forced us to check the anti-lock brakes ( they work , and well ) . |