Example sentences of "out the hard way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 2 | Finding out the hard way . |
| 3 | It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year . |
| 4 | Peter had found out the hard way . |
| 5 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 6 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 7 | The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ? |
| 8 | and let them find out the hard way ? |