Example sentences of "[verb] to end up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I were you , James , I would n't call these people niggers — unless , of course , you want to end up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I want to restore my 1967 LWB and hope to end up with a functional , economic vehicle . |
| 5 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 6 | Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ . |
| 7 | Ideally you might like to end up with a set which , even if only subconsciously , reminds you of the atmosphere and tension of those rallies . ’ |
| 8 | Not every idea we have is going to end up as a full research project . |
| 9 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 10 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 11 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 12 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 13 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 14 | They are going to end up with a lot of bankrupt people . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you levelling ? ’ he asked , ‘ 'cos if you ai n't that kid is still going to end up in a body-bag . ’ |
| 16 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 17 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 18 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 19 | So it should be assumed that a similar number of those who changed in the ‘ right ’ direction were similarly ill-informed about their new choice , and just happened to end up in the ‘ right ’ group by chance . |
| 20 | So if you know that just by opening the door you 're bound to end up with a space-age vacuum cleaner , 50 encyclopaedias , a new patio or a tarmac-covered drive , you could try hiding in the broom cupboard until he 's gone . |
| 21 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 22 | It 's not much after what you 've just been through , but I 'd hate to end up in a French jail and , as I forgot my licence , I 'm not insured to move this car . ’ |
| 23 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 24 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 25 | It 's quite common when changing old basin taps to end up with a cracked basin . |
| 26 | Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers . |
| 27 | It is an essential part of the composition and , as George put it : ‘ You do n't want to end up with a cushion that resembles a lump of putty . ’ |
| 28 | If those trainers did n't want to end up in a splash they 'd better get out of the way before I … |
| 29 | And apparently Jason Horfitz then said he would n't be passing on the information he had to anybody else as he did n't want to end up in a ditch . ’ |
| 30 | We do n't want to end up in the beer tent at three o'clock ’ — DICK BEST ( England coach ) about the Selkirk Sevens , where his seven lost in the quarter-finals to Gala . |