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

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1 It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace .
2 Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League .
3 Edward looked out of the window , where rooks beat across a turbulent sky .
4 A weekly list of horses to follow HUFOOF : Had her stands-side rivals beaten in a 24-runner sprint at Haydock on Saturday but was kept out of the frame by the finishers on the far side of the track .
5 The constituent cells of Volvox , however , are coordinated , for all the flagella around the sphere beat in an organised way and drive the tiny ball in a particular direction .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom .
10 Paige could feel her heart beating like a trapped bird in her chest and her senses reeled .
11 Warm , seeing through holly-eyes , heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird , Tallis went with Holly-jack , deeper into the forest .
12 Every cell in each animal and plant beats to the circadian rhythm .
13 She stared at his throat , hypnotised by the pulse beating beneath the bronzed skin .
14 She glared back at him , feeling a momentary quiver when his jaw tightened even more , setting that betraying little muscle beating in a furious tempo .
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