Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She falls in love , but soon realises that her political role is more important , and ends up riding off into the sunset with her troops to join Zapata . |
| 2 | In naturally acid areas , or where acid rain has made the water more acid , lead pipes are a serious hazard to health because the water strips the metal from the pipe walls and it ends up coming out of the tap . |
| 3 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 4 | I get head spin , and end up lolling out of the car , dribbling through my nose onto the tarmac just to get the vile bitter taste of nicotine out of my mouth . |
| 5 | No matter how hard I concentrate I always end up clambering out of a manhole in Duke Ellington Boulevard with a dustbin-lid on my head . |