Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the hard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
2 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
3 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
4 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
5 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
6 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
7 | The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ? |
8 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
9 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
10 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
11 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
12 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
13 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
14 | Experts say on 12 October it will wipe out the hard disc of any machine it has entered . |
15 | It was this group of active questioners which made up the hard core of the evangelists who spread the new Christian teachings or ‘ Gospel ’ to many parts of the northern hemisphere . |
16 | The major difference is that whereas in Popper the decisions concern the acceptance of singular statements only , in Lakatos the device is extended so as to be applicable to the universal statements that make up the hard core . |
17 | In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea . |
18 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
19 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
20 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
21 | This book is designed to help you cut out the hard work , and instead redirect your energies into formulating a worthwhile , personally relevant and practical route into the kind of nursing which appeals to you or suits you best at this particular stage in your career . |
22 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
23 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
24 | Larry lifted the sticky brown carpet , sanded down the hard wood floors , stripped paint from the high beams in the living room . |
25 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
26 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
27 | Finding out the hard way . |
28 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
29 | and let them find out the hard way ? |