Example sentences of "beaten into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 2 | He organised a presidential election in the first round of which , on March 10th , he was beaten into second place by his prime minister , Nicéphore Soglo . |
| 3 | Pure gold can be beaten out to form very thin sheets ; according to Pliny , writing in the first century AD , 25 g of gold could be beaten into 750 leaves each 10 cm square . |
| 4 | However , Pat Eddery replaced the injured Starkey for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes , where revenge was taken on Shahrastani , beaten into fourth as Dancing Brave disposed of Shardari and Triptych . |
| 5 | Pistolet Blue , the 1991 Arc de Triomphe third , was surprisingly beaten into second place by Fortune 's Wheel in the Prix d'Harcourt at Longchamp yesterday . |
| 6 | Labour leaders were quick to praise Mr Kinnock 's achievement in pulling the party back from the brink of disintegration in 1983 , when it was almost beaten into third place . |
| 7 | ALL OUR SNOWPLOUGHS HAVE BEEN BEATEN INTO SWORDS |
| 8 | But the ancestral organs did not literally change themselves into the descendant organs , like swords being beaten into ploughshares . |
| 9 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 10 | By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle . |
| 11 | Love has four letters and four meanings , and peace has two faces , two edges when the sword is beaten into a ploughshare . |
| 12 | Schisgal was terrific , perhaps because he was so beaten into the ground by that time , I do n't know . |
| 13 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 14 | Eileen , who 'd been beaten into writing legibly by the nuns , felt as if the writer did n't care whether her letters were decipherable or not . |
| 15 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 16 | He has stopped , or beaten into a mess , 30 of his 36 opponents . |
| 17 | PAIN IN SPAIN : The anguish of Liz McColgan , beaten into fifth in the Olympic10,000m last night |
| 18 | For the first time in his life , William was having enough food to eat and was not being beaten into submission by his bully of a father . |
| 19 | The men retained the 5,000m gold , although last year 's winner Jeremy Freeman , was beaten into third spot by England international Dale Laughlin , former Anglo-European pupil now living in Romford , who showed a smart pair of heels . |
| 20 | There is still enormous importance attached to virginity " and girls are consequently protected , or beaten into submission , and their social activities greatly restricted . |
| 21 | A single Troy ounce can be beaten into a sheet a hundred feet square and only of an inch thick . |
| 22 | But something inside him , some long-ago echo of a boy beaten into insensibility if he cried , said , no , money is n't everything , satisfaction is n't everything , what about justice ? |
| 23 | A large square had been beaten into the dirt there , muddy with rain . |
| 24 | Manufacturing systems manager Phil Knapper said : ‘ Congratulations to both factories for setting such high standards and also to Mason 's Ironstone who were beaten into second place by just one point . |
| 25 | Bowden was beaten into second place by Dublin 's Eamonn Byrne after he suffered a line penalty on the seventh test . |
| 26 | DAMON Hill saw his late father Graham 's Monaco Grand Prix record broken by Ayrton Senna but was the first to congratulate the Brazilian despite his own personal disappointment of being beaten into second place . |
| 27 | Odds-on favourite last time at Haydock , he was narrowly beaten into third place , but tomorrow should prove third time lucky . |
| 28 | The crushing defeat of the NDP raised questions as to the political future of Haynes — once commonly described as " the second most powerful man in Barbados " — who was beaten into third place in his own constituency . |
| 29 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 30 | Labour held Hemsworth , where the Conservatives were beaten into third place by the Liberal Democrats . |