Example sentences of "[be] beat [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone , ’ she announced , her voice suddenly strong again , ‘ someone has to try to prevent poor women from being beaten by great strong brutes . ’ |
| 2 | The thought of debonair Seb Smith being beaten by spotty , horrid little Nails tickled Nutty 's imagination . |
| 3 | The Dallas Cowboys , who were beaten by Green Bay , and the Detroit Lions , who lost to the Minnesota Vikings , remain without a win . |
| 4 | To think otherwise would be to succumb to the glamour and particularity with which seniority was invested by the boys themselves ; the critical fact was that , in the fullness of time , little boys who were beaten by big ones might reasonably expect to do the beating themselves . |
| 5 | Both fashions occurred in an era of desperate shortage and hardship for millions ; zoot-suited dandies were beaten by angry mobs on the streets of New York and the style was finally banned . |
| 6 | The former world champion had saved four match points in rallying from 2–5 in the fourth set , which he eventually won on a tie-break , before winning the fifth set 6–0 but he had little to offer in the doubles , when he and Eric Jelen were beaten in straight sets . |
| 7 | So long as they have neighbours within 12″ the Snotlings are not affected by the psychology rules and they do not need to take break tests when they are beaten in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 8 | Spruce , turning the pages idly , found an entry for a Monday in February 1877 : three pupils had been beaten for disorderly behaviour in church the previous Sunday . |
| 9 | The semi-finals were marred by a disputed majority points decision when Londoner Chris Henry , who looked a convincing winner , was adjudged to have been beaten by Welsh champion Richard Fenton . |
| 10 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 11 | Zafonic was beaten on soft going at Maisons-Laffitte in April . |
| 12 | Black was beaten by Nigerian Sunday Bada and Jean-Louis Rapnouil , of France , in a slow race . |
| 13 | CHESS wizard Bobby Fischer was beaten by old rival Boris Spassky yesterday — for the first time in 20 years . |
| 14 | Days and even weeks after he was beaten by Conservative Michael Bates , he found it difficult to discuss what had happened . |