Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers of his other hand beat a sensuous tattoo on her rounded bottom , stopping to tap and then sweeping away the notes with a furious stroke . |
| 2 | At the height of her anger , unable to stop herself , she beat a loud tattoo with her clenched fists on the wooden edge of the bunk . |
| 3 | Summoning a bleary-eyed waiter to serve further alcoholic beverages , he beat a strategic retreat , to the raucous sound of upraised voices trilling ‘ Mid pleasures and gin-palaces … there 's no place like home . ’ |
| 4 | She could almost feel the electrical impulse of them , some challenge there that made her feel threatened … and yet made her heart beat a fearful tattoo inside her chest , recognising that danger was a roller-coaster ride and that fear was often closely followed by exhilaration . |
| 5 | Small drummer boys , their lips caked with the road 's dust , beat a ragged advance as they ran . |
| 6 | At the end of the dance Maggie thanked him and beat a hasty retreat back to Natasha . |
| 7 | Blushing , he beat a hasty retreat . |
| 8 | Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat . |
| 9 | Greatly outnumbered , the ducks would abandon their foraging mission and beat a hasty retreat to their island stronghold at the slightest sign of trouble . |
| 10 | Compaq Computer Corp beat a hasty retreat from ‘ desktop Unix . ’ |
| 11 | He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching , but it was not hasty enough . |
| 12 | The sooner she beat a hasty retreat back to Valletta and Kalkara , and ultimately to the even safer distance of London , England , the better for everyone … |
| 13 | Blake agreed with his companion , and beat a hasty retreat back to the hole in time . |
| 14 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 15 | As the rain beat a dull rhythm on Milan 's sludge-coloured buildings this spring , Italian designers were proclaiming the return of brilliant colour behind the facades of the word 's most industrial fashion capital . |
| 16 | The two lucky gunslingers turned out to be Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons who narrowly beat a young lad from Manchester at the final cut . |
| 17 | Kennedy was 43 when he beat a lacklustre Richard Nixon to the White House . |
| 18 | He beat a red light and turned right again , on to the parkway that led along the river to the bridge . |
| 19 | In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president . |
| 20 | The herdsman beat a tactful retreat to the end of the cowshed and then I took the opportunity to say what I thought . |
| 21 | A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard . |
| 22 | Does that beat a full house ? |
| 23 | There was a woman who was assaulted , the Turks from the restaurant came down and beat a single man outside the Moat Centre . |
| 24 | Shackled to an oar , she strained in a galley as an oiled mountain of flesh beat a huge drum . |
| 25 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 26 | Ralf ventured a tentative smile . |
| 27 | Most studies have been carried out by watching just one plant species and drawing conclusions from that , though a study by Leighton and Leighton analysed a whole forest in eastern Borneo . |
| 28 | It was Galileo 's contemporary , Kepler , who contributed a major breakthrough in that direction when he discovered that each planetary orbit could be represented by a single ellipse , with the sun at one focus . |
| 29 | 21–7 " Letters were read from the secretary and convener of the Praise Committee of the Church with regard to a grant for assisting the congregation to secure an instrument to be used in congregational praise , from which it appears that the Committee were prepared to give £10 on condition that the instrument would be introduced in connection with public worship , and that the congregation contributed a suitable proportion of the cost . " |
| 30 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |