Example sentences of "[noun] beat [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Outside , the sun beat down on the red baked earth of Provence , but the summer salon was cool .
2 PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas
3 He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him .
4 Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer .
5 There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers .
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