1) He drives a beat-up old van.

2) Eg. Where did you get the beat-up old car?

3) His beat-up car had just blown up, so the struggling actor/writer had to hitchhike.

4) My first car, a beat-up old Mustang, was a lemon -- sometimes it felt like I spent more time awaiting roadside assistance than I spent driving it.

5) Cinderella will return the dirty appearance formerly, wearing beat-up clothes. Oh , it is too bad.

6) Tap the beat-up by the weekend, the heart palpitate looked up , the last strong open our bleary eyes.

7) The desert town of Perfection, Nevada - all tumbleweed and beat-up trucks - gets attacked by giant earthworms.

8) The piano that we had inspected and paid for in the city was delivered by three young Arabs in a beat-up van.

9) She had large eyes, but mostly, it seemed,(http:///beat-up.html) for his beat-up shoes.

10) I woke up after that first night in the bunk, and the first thing I saw was a beat-up car outside.

11) He went to the window and watched the cars, beat-up minis and dusty sedans, entering and leaving the compound.

12) The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me.

13) Late in the afternoon, thunder growling , that same old green pickup rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat-up Resistol tilted back.

14) Hearing this, an old man stood up among the audience and said, "I can understand you quite well, and you know I had a beat-up car like yours."

15) In 1992 my son Jesse, the anthropologist Robert Bruce and I drove 400 miles in Robert's beat-up VW van across the dry landscape of southern Mexico into the Chiapas.

16) I live in a small house. I drive a beat-up old car.

17) He was scoutmaster of Bill Sr.'s Boy Scout troop, leading the boys on hikes through the Olympic Mountains and driving them in a beat-up bus to Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.

18) When we were seated, one of the guests noticed the beat-up gravy boat I'd placed among the newer, better dinnerware.

19) Then, when Nisan got his driver’s license a few months later, he invited Nemutan for a ride around town in his beat-up Toyota.

20) I decided that after Tom died, I would sell my beat-up blue Honda and Tom's white Subaru and buy a new car.

21) Work, in this small mid western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac, but he never quit looking.

22) Out of every book in the Strand’s famous miles of volumes, I had desperately, randomly, impulsively grabbed a beat-up Modern Library edition of Anatole France’s “Penguin Island.” Oy.

23) Family members and friends wrinkled their noses at the disfigured baby I was. They all commented on how much I looked like a beat-up football player.

24) According to Apple lore he drove around in a beat-up Toyota with a broken passenger-side door even after he was appointed to management.

25) Cameron, who was sharing an apartment in Tarzana with Wisher, and driving a beat-up two-door Chevrolet, had no money.

26) He spent two years driving across America in his old, beat-up car, sleeping in the back seat in his rumpled white suit, getting up each day eager to share his idea with someone new.

27) In this paper, a matrix method is used to analyze the kinematic influence of structural - errors on the motion of beat-up and weft insertion system of a rapier loom.