Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice people ending up clogging this plughole when the PZs were full of undeserving wankers , wallies , wasters and wooftahs . |
| 2 | With this , the petrified toddler would disappear in the rushing water and , floundering like an asthmatic salmon , be tossed like a cork all the way down , occasionally smashing its as-yet-unhardened cranium into the wall and ending up bobbing dazed in the pool at the bottom , while other members of the family zoomed in with the Camcorder , dreaming of the £1,000 they 'd win from Jeremy Beadle . |
| 3 | If Thatcher ends up opposing that sort of modernisation of institutions , then she will deserve to be denounced as simply reactionary and perverse . |
| 4 | Bustling , cooing visitors upset them , and a ‘ pass the baby ’ session ends up producing piercing screams of genuine distress . |
| 5 | ‘ By slow-cooking it in its natural juices , it ends up tasting delicious . ’ |
| 6 | Somehow , it ends up looking good and people are quite impressed , even though there 's no particular recipe to follow . |
| 7 | So attention shifts in a rather desultory way to the ever diminishing group of small independent booksellers , and everyone ends up felling dissatisfied . |
| 8 | The perfectionist is a person who has problems setting priorities , and often ends up spending equal amounts of time and effort on tasks irrespective of their importance . |
| 9 | At its extreme everyone ends up spending all their time writing reports on everything they do . |
| 10 | But ultimately it is lost in a quagmire of stylistic density and what could have been a startling book ends up feeling turgid . |
| 11 | Even work which concentrates on the social flexibility of gender relations , often ends up making biological determinants the core of its project . |
| 12 | I usually end up writing large chunks of each edition . |
| 13 | I tend to buy something new once a month , and inevitably end up getting various items for both Roger and Jamie as well , so I have to try to keep my spending under strict control . |
| 14 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 15 | Every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 16 | And every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 17 | But of course the users do n't know what they want , so they end up getting another duff system . |
| 18 | You may find that distance closes quickly during a combination sequence and you and your opponent end up facing each other within reverse punch range . |
| 19 | so I 'll be looking more towards that now and end up thinking that 's the harder . |
| 20 | Heads of United States government departments usually end up playing one of two roles . |
| 21 | But by playing D in a sequence of encounters , both players end up scoring less than they would by cooperating ( because R P ) . |
| 22 | And end up falling flat on her face or something like that ! |
| 23 | MOVIES that are a smash hit at the box-office still end up losing millions . |
| 24 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 25 | You end up having inappropriate sculptures just put somewhere in front of the building , bearing no relation to it or its function . |
| 26 | ‘ If you give it away it comes back in its own good time , like that dreadful assembly hymn , you know … and ‘ you end up having more ’ . ’ |
| 27 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 28 | ’ People might think it 's odd that I have this rich , famous dad and still end up sleeping rough . |
| 29 | No , in the barn , 'cos they went yesterday morning , and er , they end up sleeping last night , due back today |
| 30 | Double-handed weapons are a good option because Ogres have such a low initiative they usually end up striking last anyway . |