Example sentences of "beat [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soften the cheese , then beat in the soured cream or fromage frais . |
| 2 | Gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar , adding a little at a time and mixing until well incorporated . |
| 3 | Every cell in each animal and plant beats to the circadian rhythm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ripley 's failure was part of a team malfunction that left Blackburn beaten for the first time away from home in the League . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The European Commission 's protest that they were distorting competition by acting unilaterally was successfully beaten in the European Court . |
| 13 | WAYNE FERREIRA won himself $100,000 yesterday — for being humiliatingly beaten in the first round of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 14 | I got beaten in the first round but my father was very good — he won the tournament and won a vacuum flask . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She has not been beaten on the European circuit this season . |
| 19 | Hughes is beaten on the left touchline but Rovers defenders charge down David Lowe 's shot . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ From what I 've seen so far , Alan looks favourite , ’ said White , beaten at the first hurdle again . |
| 22 | The Czech , beaten at the last moment by the Australian , is congratulated on coming second and replies , ‘ But I did n't win . ’ |
| 23 | Then came another political bust-up and the catastrophe of 1921–22 , when a Greek army tried to march on Ankara and was roundly beaten by the new Turkey of Kemal Ataturk . |
| 24 | Holly 's voice tailed away , beaten by the new apathy that overwhelmed him . |
| 25 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 26 | Perhaps all three universities in the league were still shell-shocked after being well beaten by the top Pizza clubs last Saturday . |
| 27 | Perhaps all three universities in the league were still shell-shocked after being well beaten by the top Pizza clubs last Saturday . |
| 28 | The London middleweight Rod Douglas , who has been in hospital since being beaten by the British champion Herol Graham two weeks ago , is expected to leave hospital ‘ in a week or so ’ , according to his manager Mickey Duff , who said last night : ‘ He is going to make a complete recovery . |
| 29 | Warm , seeing through holly-eyes , heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird , Tallis went with Holly-jack , deeper into the forest . |
| 30 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |