Example sentences of "come up the [adj] " 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 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 6 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 7 | Broadhurst , who shot 68 , and Woosnam , 71 , were already in the clubhouse on that mark when Rystrom and Torrance , the last pair , came up the final fairway . |
| 8 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 9 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 10 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 11 | Now I came up the hard way , same as you . |
| 12 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 13 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 14 | Coming up the best of the action from the Endsleigh Insurance League , we start at Molyneux it 's Wolves and Stoke City , Phil the reporter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From the top of the mound , using his binoculars , he could see Tam Otaki and the big American , Bob Stein , coming up the 8th . |
| 17 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 18 | there was a street light coming up the bloody |
| 19 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 20 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 21 | I 'd come up the hard way you see . |
| 22 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 23 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
| 24 | 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 . |