Corporate profits were badly battered through the first half of 1987.

The soldier he pulled out was badly battered, but didn't seem to have any broken bones.

Both of them were still alive, it turned out, though badly battered.

Her face was also badly battered, the police said.

He was a big man, but his face had been badly battered.

Badly battered, but still fighting, the Soviet marines began to pull back.

He needed to be no physician to see the Romans were badly battered.

The car itself had been badly battered, the windshield shattered.

His heart was badly battered, and after losing Victoria he didn't feel the least desire for a woman.

Yet the fact remains that the state has been badly and perhaps needlessly battered.