Example sentences of "[verb] end [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one wants to end up fighting a patent battle in court because financially only the lawyers win . |
| 2 | ‘ Graham has made it perfectly clear he does n't want to go to the West Indies next winter — but he 's said those sort of things before about touring and has ended up going . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But he seemed to end up getting into patent battles over them . ’ |
| 4 | What if you 'd gone on believing the worst of me and into the bargain you 'd ended up having to marry Janice ? |
| 5 | But you have to put your ass into it — you 've got to end up playing it like another instrument like a guitar or a piano and getting down with it . |
| 6 | Indeed , if you 've got groups with no status distinctions between them the person who , by chance , lands up sitting there tends to end up behaving as a leader , okay ? |
| 7 | ‘ So that explains why you 're always so tense when I 'm around and why we always seem to end up bickering ? ’ |
| 8 | Whatever happens , I always seem to end up watching The South Bank Show , something I never do normally ; the changing of the clocks is forever associated with the Arts and adenoids . |
| 9 | People with no money and no home always seem to end up having children . |
| 10 | The apparent disadvantage of the scheme — the fact that he was going to end up poisoning not only Elinor and Donald but also most of the inhabitants of Maple Drive , including what remained of Donald 's family ( Arfur was notoriously fond of ‘ Daddy 's ‘ Ine ’ ) was outweighed by its brilliantly direct character . |
| 11 | What with contributions to the housekeeping , the holiday was going to end up costing me the best part of £500 . |
| 12 | I think so , you know , and the lads have just said that , and then we went I think after the first goal , twenty odd minutes , it looked as though three one it was going to end up did n't it . |
| 13 | Her alarm , it was patently obvious to her now , stemmed from a basic instinct of knowing that she was going to end up hurting inside . |
| 14 | You 're going to end up going back up there , you know . |
| 15 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 16 | Sometimes those who start out dancing end up flying . |
| 17 | Each generation of managers , however , seems to end up learning the hard way . |
| 18 | I might have ended up hating you . " |
| 19 | If he 'd hit a few bumps in the road , it could have ended up wiping his face out , but he did very , very well . ’ |
| 20 | The reason why Henry 's belief that McEnroe is this year 's champion was too lucky or too luckily true to count as knowledge is that his route to this lucky truth was such that even if it had been false , he would still have ended up believing it . |
| 21 | While the move will reassure metropolitan-minded trademark agents — who feared they might have ended up dealing with an office in Wales — it will create some problems . |
| 22 | God knows , maybe he 'd have ended up killing Andy , killing both of us , but nobody deserves to die like that . |
| 23 | Oddly enough , had the whole bag disappeared , UA would have ended up paying US$100 . |
| 24 | ‘ Patrick weighed 8lb 7oz — ‘ I 'm lucky he was a big baby , or I might have ended up having him even more quickly . |
| 25 | Leeds had given up by then but it is not hard to present a case from which they , rather than City , might have ended up celebrating . |
| 26 | He might have ended up finding out about your travels . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 28 | Even if everyone else is having a good time you tend to end up focusing on the one ASSHOLE ! |
| 29 | He would n't want to end up sharing a cell with Mike Tyson , would he ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't want to end up filed in there forever , do you ? ’ |