Example sentences of "[noun] beat [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 2 | Long-serving Steve Lawson , a former Cleveland Park track record-holder , has been racing since 1974 but he has proved on numerous occasions that he 's a hard man to beat on the tricky Middlesbrough track . |
| 3 | But with the Government 's popularity having plunged over the past 11 months , he may have a struggle on his hands to beat off the Liberal Democrats , who were runners-up in Newbury last April . |
| 4 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 5 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |
| 6 | Warm , seeing through holly-eyes , heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird , Tallis went with Holly-jack , deeper into the forest . |
| 7 | Every cell in each animal and plant beats to the circadian rhythm . |
| 8 | She stared at his throat , hypnotised by the pulse beating beneath the bronzed skin . |