Example sentences of "end up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
2 | Clearly , unless these features are defined with precision , there is a danger of ending up with a tautological explanation : what is recent must also be novel because it is recent . |
3 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
4 | Questions biting at her like rats , ending up with the sharpest bite of all . |
5 | Instead it goes on growing , ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult . |
6 | But they argue that factors such as regional variations , better Tory organisation in marginal constituencies and the ‘ incumbency ’ factor where sitting MPs are defending seats , could result in the Conservatives ending up as the largest party , if not with a narrow overall majority . |
7 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
8 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
12 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
13 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
14 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
15 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
16 | Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements . |
17 | You make an interesting comment about your wife 's experiences that ones ends up with a private practice . |
18 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |
19 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
20 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
21 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
22 | But if the exchange is unequal , one chromosome ends up with an extra copy of the segment and the other without the particular segment . |
23 | ‘ This means the muscles go flat instead of round and the butcher ends up with an inferior eye muscle . |
24 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
25 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
26 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |
27 | Now this kind of behaviour often ends up in a fierce debate about guidebook descriptions and grades of the participants ' favourite routes . |
28 | Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands . |
29 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
30 | 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 ! |