Example sentences of "[pron] the hard [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
2 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
3 | Are these pictures simply transcriptions of power , in which the hard approach is mixed with the soft , and the Church is allied with the State ( and in this case hinting as well , not just at the foreigner 's domination of the native inhabitants but also at class conflict within colonial society , since the angel is a mélange of Spanish and Inca aristocracies ) ? |
4 | Understanding the disk organisation has taken me a little time , but this has been amply repaid by the speed and ease of data storage which the hard disk gives me . |
5 | You know you the hard work . |
6 | It is often said that the ‘ old men ’ did everything the hard way and in the past such templates tended to be cut from the solid . |
7 | Why do something the hard way when you can save time and temper by doing it an easy way ? |
8 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
9 | But Gordillo and his contemporaries have had to come to terms with it the hard way , following directly in its path . |
10 | There was no short cut : farming was an art and few men had it unless they 'd come by it the hard way . |
11 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
12 | Now I want you to do it the hard way , I mean you would n't normally do it this way but when you 've got letters in you 've got no choice . |
13 | ‘ You want it the hard way ? |
14 | ‘ But you do realise that you 'll be doing it the hard way ? |
15 | The hardened jumper-fiddler can do it the hard way , of course , but the software approach is by far the easiest — so you can plug it in and forget it , you wo n't need to whip it out and fiddle with it . |
16 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
17 | We 're having to do it the hard way . ’ |
18 | So , while the electrician is making a new connection , we ( including the managers from the office ! ) decided to find the shovels and do it the hard way . |
19 | ‘ Very well , we 'll do it the hard way . |
20 | They do n't do it the hard way . |
21 | He 's learnt it the hard way now and he 's . |
22 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
23 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
24 | It was not that she minded the hard work ; it was what the hard work did to her poor hands . |