Example sentences of "[verb] the hard way " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reputation was earned the hard way . |
| 2 | Now , ahead of d'Alembord , the gun-fire rumbled like dull thunder to remind him that the two thousand six hundred pounds must be earned the hard way . |
| 3 | When every simple privilege has to be earned the hard way , the struggle leaves its mark . |
| 4 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 5 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 6 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 7 | But , and it is a big but , I learnt the hard way and have been proven in practice . |
| 8 | Mrs Burrows learnt the hard way . |
| 9 | Credit control the hard way |
| 10 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 11 | Temptress Melanie Williams and partner in crime Eric Gooden refuse to ‘ Jump on to any bandwagons , even with new technology ’ and got their deal with Virgin 's Ten label the hard way . |
| 12 | Each generation of managers , however , seems to end up learning the hard way . |
| 13 | Now , thanks to hundreds , perhaps thousands of such requests , plus one or two boycotts , producers of cosmetics are learning the hard way that necessity is the mother of invention . |
| 14 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 15 | He was also learning the hard way what it was like to live with the ‘ changeability of women ’ . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Teresa finds herself learning the hard way how to survive in Africa and she discovers that its beauty is not without danger . |
| 17 | A new computer simulator 's been designed to teach drivers how to handle a skid before they end up learning the hard way . |
| 18 | No but they know the form , you know , we ca I ca n't erm I 'm not sure and then , now I 'm learning , you know , and it 's li I 'm learning the hard way and I 've got ta carry on learning the hard way cos I ca n't break it , you know ? |
| 19 | No but they know the form , you know , we ca I ca n't erm I 'm not sure and then , now I 'm learning , you know , and it 's li I 'm learning the hard way and I 've got ta carry on learning the hard way cos I ca n't break it , you know ? |
| 20 | Trevor of Bridgend was 59 last birthday and has learned the hard way that insurance gets harder to acquire the older one gets . |
| 21 | What I 've learned , I 've learned the hard way . ’ |
| 22 | The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat — you stayed indoors if there was trouble . |
| 23 | It would be not unreasonable to point out that the first two qualities have , by Goram 's own admission , had to be learned the hard way by the man whose marriages to Rangers and Tracy , his wife of the last two years , have re-shaped his professional and private life . |
| 24 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 25 | Rather like the BCCI crash here in England , I learned the hard way that organisations offering the highest return on investments also carried the highest risk , though I had thought building societies were safe from such problems . |
| 26 | He learned the hard way at Rotherham , Sheffield United , Aberdeen and Reading . |
| 27 | Sorry , Colin , but you learned the hard way about the harsh truths of the boxing world . |
| 28 | His earliest students learned the hard way by helping to erect experimental plant and doing the pipe fitting . |
| 29 | It would have to be another lesson learned the hard way , but she could not easily push the thought of him away and she knew she never would . |
| 30 | She was going to learn the hard way about the book , he was determined about that . |