Example sentences of "[vb infin] up in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not sum up in a few sentences what will be the substance itself of my book . |
| 2 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 3 | He adds : ‘ People who get carried away when describing their wares can end up in the small claims court . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall see to it that she does n't end up in the wrong hands . |
| 6 | 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 . ) |
| 7 | BE good to your secretary or you could end up in the worst seats on business flights and be booked into lousy hotels . |
| 8 | But if Geoff does n't turn up in a few minutes . |