Example sentences of "[vb past] the hard way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 2 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 3 | But , and it is a big but , I learnt the hard way and have been proven in practice . |
| 4 | Mrs Burrows learnt the hard way . |
| 5 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 6 | Rather like the BCCI crash here in England , I learned the hard way that organisations offering the highest return on investments also carried the highest risk , though I had thought building societies were safe from such problems . |
| 7 | He learned the hard way at Rotherham , Sheffield United , Aberdeen and Reading . |
| 8 | Sorry , Colin , but you learned the hard way about the harsh truths of the boxing world . |
| 9 | His earliest students learned the hard way by helping to erect experimental plant and doing the pipe fitting . |
| 10 | It would have to be another lesson learned the hard way , but she could not easily push the thought of him away and she knew she never would . |
| 11 | And Shane Warne 's education continued the hard way . |