Example sentences of "beat [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Williams , who beat Hughroy Currie for the vacant European heavyweight title on Tuesday night , wasted no time yesterday in throwing a gauntlet in the direction of the British champion , Gary Mason . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON indoor bowls club beat South Tyneside in the final game of the Durham County A team league championship to retain the title for the second year . |
| 3 | He beat Lee Trevino in the final three and two . |
| 4 | McManus , who beat Jimmy White in the previous round , failed to bother the scorer as Parrott fired in runs of 48 and 31 for a 94–0 first frame win . |
| 5 | The ambition was what Gains , in his autobiography , calls the ‘ impossible dream ’ ; the colour line effectively prohibited him from challenging for the world title , though he did beat George Godfrey for the black version of the championship in 1928 . |
| 6 | The fastest in my age group , however , was a white boy called Stapleton who went on to beat Mike McFarlane at the English Schools event . |
| 7 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |