Example sentences of "end up [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You end up speaking the same jargon or formulae as the establishment without stopping to think . |
| 2 | ‘ I always end up wearing the same old make-up , but just a little bit less of it , ’ admitted one frustrated friend . |
| 3 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 4 | A new computer simulator 's been designed to teach drivers how to handle a skid before they end up learning the hard way . |
| 5 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 6 | As you write the essay you may find that the focus shifts , with the result that you end up rejecting the original title and finding a more suitable one . |
| 7 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |
| 8 | I get very uptight over what to say without upsetting him , so when we do finally talk I end up saying the wrong things . |
| 9 | Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain . |