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• Well, two beat ups (the bullied kids) would split that cash fifty-fifty.
• The data include measurements from both the original tree plantings and subsequent beat-ups.
• 2009, Newstalk ZB, Hydro project claims "a beat up" - Brownlee, Newstalk ZB.
• These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.
• Media beat-ups and xenophobia are nothing new to the Vietnamese people.
• To the people of CQ[Central Queensland] the Internet is nothing more than the subject of media beat ups about pornography and bomb making.
• Frequently on guest nights beat ups were held by the Third Term, and cadets of the First Term (and, sometimes, the Second Term) were singled out individually.
• We gave him wedgies and did mock beat-ups. We never hurt him or intended to hurt him, but he went along with our tough guy sort of image, and took it tongue in cheek and got it.
• These hit-and-run LRDG attacks — “beat-ups,” the patrols were beginning to call them — continued, and added to the enemy's mounting difficulties.
• I got beaten up by thugs on my way home.
• to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers
• Don't beat yourself up over such a minor mistake.
• He [= a paraglider pilot] flew into a hill and beat himself up pretty badly.
• Pa Blanken tells me that the Japs beat up our camp a month ago and we have lost all our heavy gear and moved up into the hills - he does not know where. Hell! No casualties, however. [...] Our material losses were very serious. The Japs had found a rucksack containing all our money, our medicines, including all our vital quinine, a copy of our signals plan, and a number of maps. [...] It seems probable that the Japs spotted our camp from the air. They certainly knew its exact position and came straight to it.
• "We know for certain that their army does not consist of more than three thousand men, including all sorts." Sir Henry Percy, on hearing this, was greatly rejoiced, and cried out, "To horse! to horse! for by the faith I owe my God, and to my lord and father, I will seek to recover my pennon, and to beat up their quarters this night."
• Our people are daily gaining Health Spirits and Discipline — the spade & pick axe throw'd aside — for the British Rebels to take up — they notwithstanding affect to hold us cheap and threaten to beat up our Quarters — if we don’t beat up theirs first which is in Contemplation, this in time.
• On this occasion, the diligent prior o St. Andrews assembled 600 horse, with which he assailed the French, beat up their quarters, intercepted their provisions, and cut off their straggling parties.
• At breach of wall, or hedge surprise, / She shared i' th' hazard, and the prize: / At beating quarters up, or forage, / Behaved herself with matchless courage