Example sentences of "[was/were] forced [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | During it they were forced to throw into the sea both the ambassador 's carriages , containing more than 40,000 livres worth of his clothes , while twenty-nine of his horses died of thirst . |
| 32 | The cold , rainy conditions took their toll on the competitors at the Longfield Road Stadium and three race leaders were forced to throw in the towel . |
| 33 | By this means they covered about thirty paces before they were forced to drop to the ground well away from the track . |
| 34 | The latter were forced to repair to the waiting area where they enviously sipped ginger beer while waiting their turn and watching the old horses pull the machines into the water , one after another . |
| 35 | The Government has not had an economic policy since it was forced to withdraw from the European Monetary System and let the value of the pound plummet . |
| 36 | She was forced to withdraw from the next event and missed the next few weeks of the Tour . |
| 37 | This has proved to be over optimistic as Haymarket was forced to withdraw from the purchase after a key investor pulled out . |
| 38 | Most often the younger child was forced to yield to the older , but most often it was the older who yielded voluntarily to the younger . |
| 39 | Baldwin thought the counter-offer acceptable , but as a rump Cabinet of the Prime Minister and six other members unanimously rejected it , he was forced to return with the matter unconcluded . |
| 40 | Again , Diana was forced to turn to the small group of friends she regards as unofficial advisers . |
| 41 | Even in its inchoate beginnings , pop culture was forced to turn to the sexually divergent or avant-garde , for it was only in the spaces that they inhabited that this new world could be recognized and could develop . |
| 42 | Unfortunately another of our Target ‘ 92 candidates , Ursula Radley , was on the start list for Bury , but due to a knee injury she was forced to scratch from the race . |
| 43 | Rovers thought they 'd taken the lead when Frazer Digby was forced to save on the line . |
| 44 | Erich Kaubitzsch was forced to ditch in the sea . |
| 45 | Returning to Scotland , he was forced to live on the street . |
| 46 | Throughout his career , Marinello was forced to live in the shadow of George Best ; he could never match the Irishman 's natural skill and in his defence , he never demonstrated Best 's incredible appetite for self-destruction . |
| 47 | My belayer has a leg span at least 18 inches wider than mine , so I was forced to cling to the merely vertical left wall . |
| 48 | On reaching the entrance it was obvious that there was no safe way into the harbour so the coxswain was forced to continue along the coast to Burnmouth . |
| 49 | After the election , the PBDS party was forced to apologise to the electorate ‘ for stirring up racial hatred ’ . |
| 50 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont openly admitted his unpopularity on television last night when he defended the ‘ difficult decisions ’ he was forced to take in the Budget . |
| 51 | On a recent occasion , he was forced to shop in the local supermarket unaccompanied by his lovely wife Mary , who was keeping their children quiet by the exciting new pindown method . |
| 52 | But one of the Government 's first moves will be to push through the Health of the Nation White Paper , which William Waldegrave , the then Health Secretary , was forced to shelve before the election . |
| 53 | He pushed away from her , and she was forced to lean against the door , shaken by the strength of the desire he 'd sent coursing through her , horrified by her own weakness . |
| 54 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 55 | Sorvino had every warning light on the car operating except for the headlamp flash , and he pumped this now as he was forced to slow behind the blockade . |
| 56 | Jimmy continued with the Palace after the War , but he was hurt in a London Challenge Cup-tie and was forced to retire from the game shortly afterwards . |
| 57 | He was forced to retire from the race with a split oil tank while in the lead . |
| 58 | All sequences refer to the non-template strand , with the numbering referring to the transcript length from the -1 site of each promoter ( since initiation of transcription was forced to commence from the -1 position by high levels of GpA and ApU for the UV5 and N25 promoters , respectively ) . |
| 59 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 60 | She was forced to bend over the hard-backed chair , her hands flat on the seat . |