Example sentences of "[was/were] beat [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a third crew , in the shape of a freshmen 's eight , participating for the first time , the race was restarted and the freshmen were beaten by the surviving senior eight by just over two lengths from Putney to Mortlake . |
| 2 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 3 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 4 | It was in 1913 that the first reference is made to the Luker family , proprietors of the Henley Standard , when on October 31st , Charles Luker was beaten on the 21st hole in the Ladies ' Cup semi-final . |
| 5 | RONNIE O'Sullivan was beaten for the first time in 25 snooker matches last night — Dave Finbow thrashed him 5-0 in the Dubai Classic . |
| 6 | The Gaullist candidate , Chaban-Delmas , was beaten in the first round : thus ended the period ( 1958–74 ) when Gaullists alone had controlled the apparatus of state broadcasting . |
| 7 | Sally Gunnell will also go to Crystal Palace with an opportunity to earn the equivalent women 's title and same bumper pay-day but her chances look more bleak after she was beaten in the one-lap hurdles for the first time in a year by her US rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick . |