Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [adj] way " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 7 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 8 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 9 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 10 | That meant the police had gone up the other way — but could see them by turning . |