Example sentences of "end [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
2 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
3 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
4 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
5 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
6 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
7 | Out in the crisp , clear air , with a backdrop of mountains and a clear run ahead : wherever you choose in the world to ski — fashionable Switzerland , sexy , stylish Italy , star-struck Colorado — our run-down of high life destinations will make sure you end up in the right place . |
8 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
9 | It 's possible , mathematically , that Hartlepool will end up in the Second Division next season . |
10 | The way to overcome this is to sail slightly high of your intended course and you 'll end up in the right place . |
11 | Yes , you can see when the ball goes off , then you 'll end up in the far corner . |
12 | Meanwhile , it would be fairer and franker of the SNBTS to mention in its information leaflets and at its collection centres that a donor 's blood might end up in the private sector . |
13 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
14 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
15 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
16 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
17 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
18 | we shall all end up in the same place |
19 | He 'll end up in the same place as the last bloke and he 's still there . |
20 | For light relief we had Valerie , and why she did n't end up in the same boat I 'll never know . |
21 | It is so easy to guide the saw freehand that it will probably end up in the bottom drawer of many a tool box . |
22 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
23 | BE good to your secretary or you could end up in the worst seats on business flights and be booked into lousy hotels . |
24 | The other members of the consortium are worried about what 's going to happen , and if we do if we do leave it to later on Chairman , the , we have every danger that the consortium will not be a core activity of the new authorities , it will end up in the residual body , and be , and just be sold . |
25 | Of course , this actually never happens but surprisingly people do seem to end up in the correct position . |
26 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
27 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
28 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
29 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
30 | It is indisputable , however , that much of the money made available by the EEC and by national governments for price support ( guidance and guarantee ) as well as for structural purposes has ended up in the richer regions . |