Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] beat [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 2 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 3 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 4 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 5 | He 'd been beaten around the head and his throat had been cut . |
| 6 | I also hated being beaten by the wind and was frustrated by my lack of progress . |
| 7 | Once an early challenge from George Crozier 's Metro had been beaten off the former hot rod driver simply ran away with the race in his Westfield . |
| 8 | One might have thought he had been beaten to the composition of the most perfectly unfilmable book by William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch , which depicts a peculiarly literary and private nightmare . |
| 9 | A large square had been beaten into the dirt there , muddy with rain . |
| 10 | She was half naked and had been beaten about the head with a rock . |
| 11 | Silver Buck , now eleven , had won four of his five races during the 1982–3 season but had been beaten in the King George by Wayward Lad , who had not run since and whose participation at Cheltenham had been in doubt until a searching gallop had proved his readiness . |