Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 2 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 3 | The four men were forced to kneel at the edge of it with their hands bound tightly behind them . |
| 4 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 5 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 6 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |
| 7 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |
| 8 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 9 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |