Example sentences of "beat [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Her hands were sore from beating against the hard wood , and she rubbed them absently as she tried to figure out what was going on . |
| 33 | She stared at his throat , hypnotised by the pulse beating beneath the bronzed skin . |
| 34 | To Ariel , Roukoubé was the creamy colour of a peanut kernel , as if she , in her cinnamon tawniness , had been shucked to reveal him inside her ; and inside him , the pulse of his life , beating in the soft place of his head where the plates of his skull had not yet met . |
| 35 | If your heart is beating beyond the high end of your aerobic range then you are walking too fast . |
| 36 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |