Example sentences of "beat [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll never forget his face when I collected a winners ’ medal after West Ham beat Arsenal in the 1980 Cup final ! ’ |
| 2 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 3 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 4 | The Poles beat Russia in the 1920s . ’ |
| 5 | But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 7 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |
| 8 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 9 | Clare Wood , who beat Gomer in the national singles final at Telford last weekend , replaces her in a team completed by Jo Durie and Anne Hobbs . |
| 10 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 11 | Military bureaucracy is something new for an organisation that can beat all-comers at the civilian variety . |
| 12 | The hope is that the machine will beat Europe to the next prize in elementary particle physics . |
| 13 | Unless the price soars to beat £4.57 in the next week , it 's not worth bothering with the warrants . |
| 14 | Indeed , in the eight events since his last victory in which he has finished third equal or better , he has never once failed to beat par in the last round . |
| 15 | Having beaten both Worcestershire and Warwickshire 3–2 , Durham and Cleveland needed to beat Cumbria in the final match . |
| 16 | An inquest in the town was told yesterday that Swales , who had drunk six pints , had been seen at least once before trying to beat trains over the unmanned crossing . |
| 17 | Well … we ( England ) are all rooting for you to beat Holland in the last game : - ) |
| 18 | The big obstacle to Britain gaining the gold medal was the Russian favourite Aleksandr Yevgeniev , a man who had set a world best earlier in the season and who had beaten Mafe at the initial World Indoor Games in the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy one year before to win the gold medal . |
| 19 | He , then the most powerful and feared man in western Europe , was being pressured by someone who was the less-than-firmly-established leader of one of the poorest , weakest states in Europe ; who considered Nationalist Spain had done the Axis a great favour in beating communism in the Civil War ; who appeared to have forgotten the extent of German aid in achieving that victory ; who offered to contribute next to nothing to the German war effort ; and who , to crown everything , expected to receive military supplies and territory in return , at best , for vague promises . |
| 20 | The 35 players who beat par in the first round set a record , beating the 33 who did it in 1991 . |
| 21 | Thirty-five players beat par in the first round and there were also more rounds in the 60s than ever before — 18 . |
| 22 | Both potting department sides beat teams from the dipping house and glost warehouse in a league table to make it to the final . |
| 23 | Just beating Higgins to the finishing line was world champion Stephen Hendry , happily back to form after his 10-4 defeat by Steve Davis in last weekend 's European Open final . |
| 24 | Such inspiration on the captain 's part was to help him towards an OBE , for with England then beating Australia in the first two games of the final , their clean sweep of three trophies out of three was accomplished . |
| 25 | Beating Rangers for the first time in a year ( the first time for two years at home ) did nothing other than give a long suffering Celtic support one night of remission . |
| 26 | An all America Foundation final would allow Koch to optimise his two boats , to cope with the threat of the New Zealand and Italian challengers , rather than beating Conner in the 13-race final . |
| 27 | Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two . |