Example sentences of "come [adv prt] the [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 They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way .
6 Now I came up the hard way , same as you .
7 Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added .
8 She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way .
9 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 .
10 And coming back the other way .
11 I 'd come up the hard way you see .
12 Firstly , to make a motif come out the same way round as depicted on your graph , turn the graph upside down .
13 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 .
14 Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us .
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