I got to take a beating.

You’re going to take a beating, see?

He took an awful beating in the body.

From then he started to take a beating.

It didn’t show what an awful beating he was taking.

I thought he must be figuring on taking an awful beating if he doesn’t want to go home afterward.

He’d have, maybe, taken a trial trip with one of Razzo’s skins early in the morning after just getting in from Torino at four o’clock in the morning and beating it out to the stables in a cab and then with the dew all over everything and the sun just starting to get going, I’d help him pull off his boots and he’d get into a pair of sneakers and all these sweaters and we’d start out.