Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 7 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 8 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 9 | Going up the other way . |
| 10 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 11 | round that square then back up the other way betwe up through the factories |
| 12 | They would wash up the same way even if they were not watched . |
| 13 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 14 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 15 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 18 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 19 | It approaches Rome , lumbering up the Appian Way , doubling its size every few minutes . |
| 20 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
| 21 | If it is at this point that Freud 's theory exceeds itself and is forced beyond the realm of the verifiable into that of speculation , this is also the point at which Such picks up the Freudian way of thinking . |
| 22 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |
| 23 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 24 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
| 25 | And no , no , I would n't want her to end up the same way as I did . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If we can get man set up the same way we 'll have a real world-beater on our hands . ’ |