Example sentences of "forced [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves .
2 Stockton South MP Tim Devlin says a new winter storage site may have been found for families being forced to pull off a site at Stockton by April 1 .
3 Those naturalists who wanted to preserve a role for the supernatural in the creation of life were forced to try out a number of alternatives in an attempt to provide an explanatory framework that would serve as an alternative to evolutionism .
4 The Worcestershire man had barely 40 overs under his belt in six Tests before this one , but here he was wheeling away in a marathon spell stretching into the fourth day , and with Tufnell on the way to completing the most overs ever bowled by one man in a first-class innings in New Zealand , the Kiwi machine was forced to change down a gear or two .
5 However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district .
6 Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan , partner in France 's largest auction company Ader Tajan , is facing further staff redundancies after being forced to take out a mortgage on his FFr40 million premises on rue Favart as security on bank loans .
7 RPR leader Chirac also had to contend with an unprecedented growth of new " currents " within the Gaullist movement and on July 11 , 1991 , was forced to lay down a code of good conduct to guide them .
8 Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds .
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