Example sentences of "beat [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morley had the concept ; in Paul Rutherford 's words , ‘ Morley had his strategy all worked out , he wanted it to be like the Sex Pistols — all the outrage , controversy — but this time with all the sex ’ , and it was rumoured that he was first interested in Bronski Beat for the Frankie role — they turned him down . |
| 2 | If the rain beats for me , it beats |
| 3 | By the summer , the same show had been enlarged and retitled Jolly Jack or The Heart that Beats for a Sailor . |
| 4 | Turning the British fascist 's ‘ there ai n't no black in the union jack ’ bullshit on its head , 3:6 Philly argue their case over a snappy jazz groove for the original , and rip up Run DMC 's ‘ Back From Hell ’ beats for the ‘ Docta D version ’ . |
| 5 | Boon beats off threat to make him too trendy |
| 6 | Mersey giant beats off the recession |
| 7 | get impatient with people who ‘ beat about the bush ’ |
| 8 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 9 | He beat about his room like a bat in a panic . |
| 10 | He never beat about the bush when something was annoying him , he was never afraid to give it to you straight , to say exactly what he thought . |
| 11 | The 18-year-old from North Shields beat off eight opponents and a tendon injury to take the lead after the opening compulsory figures . |
| 12 | He beat off Harvey Gantt , his black Democratic challenger , with television commercials suggesting that whites were losing jobs to less qualified blacks . |
| 13 | Then Stephen beat off two defenders in a run to the line and Dave Groves met the resulting cross with a diving header which was cleared in the goalmouth . |
| 14 | Led by Geoff Lawson and Keith Helfet , it beat off two late challenges from Ford sources — the Ghia studio in Turin and Ford 's US design centre in Dearborn . |
| 15 | The rebels on the bridge rapidly fell back but the troops manning the street barricades were made of sterner stuff and beat off Wills 's men , killing and wounding 76 for 42 casualties of their own . |
| 16 | Steve Smith , who won gold at the World Junior Championships in Seoul , beat off the challenge of Olympic bronze medallist Steve Backley to claim the award as Male Field Athlete of the Year . |
| 17 | The Olympic 100m champion beat off the challenge of Nigel Mansell , Nick Faldo and Sally Gunnell to collect the award at London 's Cafe Royal . |
| 18 | Somerset beat off Worcestershire and Leicestershire for Mushtaq 's signature . |
| 19 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 20 | Nuala beat off the opposition at the Racquets Club in Lisburn and her highest scoring word was ‘ freakish ’ which scored her 118 points in one game . |
| 21 | Ms Middleton , 24 , who received her cheque from main sponsor Shell UK chairman and chief executive John Collins , beat off competition from eight other young businesses to clinch joint second place . |
| 22 | The town was also successful in attaining Safer City status and beat off competition from all over the United Kingdom to become Britain 's second Environment City , he said . |
| 23 | On this line , they beat off two private sector competitors . |
| 24 | Buoyant GM bosses have revealed that increased productivity the result of massive transformations in working practices were the sole reason why the Ellesmere Port plant beat off the competition from 13 other GM sites across Europe to win the prestigious £190m engine facility . |
| 25 | Objective : to reduce costs , stay competitive , and beat off the threat from cheap foreign imports . |
| 26 | The squalling north wind beats against my windows . |
| 27 | The wind howls outside , and beats against the window panes . |
| 28 | Outside the snow beat against the window-panes . |
| 29 | The rain beat against the peeling door and the uncurtained windows and dripped from the still bloody lambskin that swung spreadeagled from the washing line . |
| 30 | The rain beat against my face , pasted my hair to my scalp , ran down my neck . |