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Simple sentences
Stop beating on the door!
My heart stopped beating.
I was not the only one who saw him beating his wife.
I wasn't the only one to see him beating his wife.
Please stop beating around the bush and come straight to the point.
Stop beating around the bush and get to the point.
The rain is beating against the windows.
The rain was beating hard against the windowpane.
The rain was beating against the windows.
Stop beating around the bush.
John was beating the drums loudly.
Workers are taking a financial beating in the employment crisis.
I felt my hands shaking and my heart beating fast.
I felt my heart beating violently.
Stop beating around the bush and give it to me straight!
Stop beating around the bush and tell me what happened.
Instead of beating around the bush, Jones got straight to the point.
That naughty child needs a good beating.
Movie subtitles
If we could discover an advanced civilisation, it would be clearly the greatest discovery of humanity, beating out fire.
These crocs are heroes, And you come along and start beating on them?
Sh-yeah, beating' on our fists with their faces.
The drums are beating for the march, but I remain to see you once again.
At first I experimented only with dead animals, and then a human heart, which I kept beating for three weeks.
Do you feel my heart beating?
And my heart stopped beating entirely.
To wear over my beating heart!
Doctor, I think the heart is beating.
It's beating perfectly.
The heart is beating more regularly now.
Yes, it's been beating for nine hours.
It's beating quite normally now.
Hi, Gottlieb, always beating around the bush.
My heart was beating.
Should there be on this earth among millions of beating hearts not to be found one that strives for you in love?
Do you feel my heart beating passionately!
Something has been beating in me like the incessant tom-tom in the jungle.
To wear over my beating heart.
Another beating?
Want another beating?
Oh. your first love? Before we consolidate teamwork, you should bear with a beating once.
AND THIS GUY THAT'S BEATING DOWN HER DOOR.
Her heart stopped beating.
His wife's been beating him.
Aren't you doing something known as beating about the bush?
I might try beating you every morning before breakfast.
Van, enough beating about the bush.
And he starts beating me old lady.
If they don't mean any harm, a beating, a theft, and a stabbing are pretty good all in one day.
But you don't think the Yankees are beating us?
Well, I ain't the beating-around-the-bush kind of guy. If I got anything on my mind, I spit it out.
I can fairly hear my heart beating.
News and current affairs
Noodles are beating spaghetti.
Worldwide broadcasts of the beating and killing of protesters have undermined the regime's religious credentials.
At the risk of sounding frivolous: When you stop a man in traditional dress from beating his wife, are you upholding her human rights or violating his?
Since 1997, the computers have only gotten better, to the point where computer programmers no longer find beating humans a great challenge.
The era of Japanese militaristic and imperialist power has long gone, and the world is beating a path to China's door.
The washing machine liberated women from spending endless hours carrying water and beating clothing on scrub boards.
For example, the profession focuses far too little on political issues and far too much on beating students to death with mathematics.
And that means beating back the populists and nationalist barbarians within by supporting aggregate demand and pro-growth reforms that ensure a more resilient recovery of jobs and incomes.
True, there are bright spots: India, Spain, and the United Kingdom are beating expectations.
Armenia frequently sees skinheads attacking reporters covering opposition rallies and once severely beating a leading opposition politician.
Soon the drums will be beating, the trumpets blowing.
Indeed, Bush's popularity has taken a beating over pension reform.
Will democracy stop men from beating their wives?
Even at Japan's world-beating export firms, reluctance to confront the ingrained interests of the old-boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines - and the workers who make them.
Olam was started by Indians in Nigeria and remains a world-beating trader in cotton, coffee, cashews and the like.
Torture, beating, and other mistreatment of Uzbek detainees are widespread.
But, as clever as the speech was, it is unlikely to succeed in beating back UKIP - and it leaves the British debate about EU membership focused on the wrong issue.
This was clearly demonstrated late last year when a South Korean consortium won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates late last year, beating out the French.
Neither by cajoling nor by beating can a donkey be turned into a racehorse, unless one is secretly satisfied with the donkey.
For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag-waving, anthem-singing, drum-beating patriotism.