Example sentences of "beat [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to rain , a steady stream that blew in from the east and beat against the stony flanks of the western hills . |
| 2 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 3 | Soften the cheese , then beat in the soured cream or fromage frais . |
| 4 | Cream remaining margarine and sugar together , beat in the whisked eggs , and stir in the flour with sufficient milk to make a soft , dropping consistency . |
| 5 | Gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar , adding a little at a time and mixing until well incorporated . |
| 6 | Every cell in each animal and plant beats to the circadian rhythm . |
| 7 | Er they 're about halfway in their own league , erm I think they beat by the odd goal the team that we beat four two here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Croghan Star ( 2.00 ) and On Tap ( 2.30 ) should prove too good for their solitary opponents , while Wigtown Boy ( 3.05 ) has only two to beat in the Red Alligator Handicap Chase . |
| 10 | Croghan Star ( 2.00 ) and On Tap ( 2.30 ) should prove too good for their solitary opponents , while Wigtown Boy ( 3.05 ) has only two to beat in the Red Alligator Handicap Chase . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bangor , beaten for the first time last week , will be keen to bounce back to winning ways by seeing off Ruthin , who welcome back bowler Owen Hughes following a finger injury . |
| 15 | It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 . |
| 16 | McKay collected points on all five climbs in yesterday 's stage and can not now be beaten for the overall mountains title . |
| 17 | Some of Gladstone 's fellow competitors obviously could n't care less about being beaten into the minor placings , but fellow breeders were more forthcoming . |
| 18 | There is scarcely a useful middleweight in the world whom he has not beaten with the one exception of the world champion , Fabien Canu of France . |
| 19 | The European Commission 's protest that they were distorting competition by acting unilaterally was successfully beaten in the European Court . |
| 20 | WAYNE FERREIRA won himself $100,000 yesterday — for being humiliatingly beaten in the first round of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 21 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 24 | Pétain was also a disciple of attrition , but in an entirely different sense from Joffre and Haig with their inhumanly simple calculations that the Germans could be beaten in the long run through losing man for man , by virtue of the Allied superiority in cannon fodder . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He appeared against John Penruddock [ q.v. ] and his rebels in 1655 , but refused any office under Oliver Cromwell , and was badly beaten in the 1656 elections . |
| 27 | She has not been beaten on the European circuit this season . |
| 28 | Hughes is beaten on the left touchline but Rovers defenders charge down David Lowe 's shot . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | TODAY 's investigation proves that Mr Major would have been beaten without the strong-arm tactics . |