Example sentences of "[verb] taken a battering " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 2 | THE ECHO 'S champion chippy has taken a battering from a fire . |
| 3 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 4 | But her body had taken a battering . |
| 5 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |