Example sentences of "end [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bennetts came here on holiday from New Zealand 20 years ago and never returned , ending up working for McLaren boss Ron Dennis until he founded WSR 10 years ago . |
| 2 | Will Serafin show his independence of mind and his refusal to be controlled by his Civil Servants and reject them all , item by item , so that he ends up discovering for himself the colleagues , procedures and methods that Summerchild has already selected for him ? |
| 3 | We then end up eating for entertainment , rather than nourishment . |
| 4 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 5 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 6 | According to the Kaisha Society , 90 per cent end up working for overseas subsidiaries of Japanese firms — and become outcasts in their own countries . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | If you 're not careful you end up going for those long healthy walks you always said you hated . ’ |
| 9 | It is not yet known , however , who will end up paying for the Juno project , currently being supported by the London-based Moscow Narodny Bank . |
| 10 | Probably , you will end up paying for a remix . |
| 11 | If it gets sued , we 'll end up paying for it . |
| 12 | Local people , who never wanted the event to be held are angry that they could end up paying for the three-day police operation . |
| 13 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 14 | She could end up walking for miles , with no sign of anyone . |
| 15 | No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm |
| 16 | You could do in-hand and ridden breed classes , and M and M working hunter pony classes — and who knows , you could even end up qualifying for Olympia . |
| 17 | It 's estimated that one in three of us will end up caring for someone . |
| 18 | I think I did end up working for them though . ’ |
| 19 | You may well end up working for them . |
| 20 | ‘ I never thought I 'd end up working for a bossy woman . ’ |
| 21 | The one move that is seen as a means of significantly improving the picture is another sharp improvement in efficiency — but that means still more job cuts , and word is that the company is considering seeking another 70,000 voluntary redundancies over the next four years , brining its workforce down to just 100,000 by 1997 , compared with 240,000 in 1991 ; finding more volunteers should not be too hard — its last offer was massively oversubscribed , but ironically , many of those that depart will end up working for its incoming competitors . |
| 22 | Users have to ensure that the software works for them and they do not end up working for the software . |
| 23 | ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes . |
| 24 | I ended up paying for him . |
| 25 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 26 | The band was called Touching Home and we got a lot of church functions and ended up playing for the American community there . ’ |