Example sentences of "[pron] may end " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may end up taking them off completely though . |
| 2 | But at last , in the summer of 1988 , negotiations are in hand which may end the war . |
| 3 | Yet between the recognition of a dispute which may end in a trial and its actual arrival before the judge lies a lengthy period of negotiation before or during the operation of the formal pre-trial procedure . |
| 4 | You may end up ‘ training ’ your child how to escalate her demanding behaviour . |
| 5 | Talking too much has the additional disadvantage that you may end up revealing more than you intended , especially if you do not want to draw attention to a lack of relevant expertise , or a past unhappy work experience . |
| 6 | You may end up in the red , but as long as it 's not by too much , you 're less likely to have rows about it . ’ |
| 7 | You may be able to solve the problem by introducing one or more Regal Tangs to give some sense of security in numbers , but there is no guarantee of this and you may end up with three nervous fish instead of one . |
| 8 | Remember , before you approach the council , that they may be more than interested in the quantities of water necessary to run your ponds … you may end up with the officials knocking at your door . |
| 9 | It is a good idea not to eat for an hour or two beforehand , or you may end up with some serious indigestion . |
| 10 | The second drawback is that if you spend too much time standing back , commenting on what 's going on , using humour and changing the subject you may end up disrupting a collective sense of purpose and fail to meet your objective . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , you are someone who restricts themselves to using commonality tactics , you may end up as a martyr . |
| 12 | In fact , if you think you may end up wanting a second machine ( of a different gauge ) as well as a standard gauge , it makes sense to buy the model without a KnitRadar and then buy the KnitRadar as an add-on accessory which you can use with whichever machine you are knitting on . |
| 13 | ‘ Knowing James , you may end up with more than you bargained for . ’ |
| 14 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 16 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 17 | And you will , if you do n't end up with a house fire you may end up with nasty burns or even electric shock . |
| 18 | But … through a degree of thoughtlessness and ill-considered preparation you may end up putting forward social views that you disagree with . |
| 19 | You may end up preferring these practical , hard-wearing materials in this well-used room . |
| 20 | An architect : maybe he had a smart assistant last year ; you may end up with the dumbest heap of concrete you ever saw . |
| 21 | Yeah , well like please do take this seriously because it 's , it 's quite important as regards to insurance and having As Vanbrugh proved last weekend , y we can do a good job with your stuff put together , and if like someone got fried , then you may end up in trouble . |
| 22 | ‘ You may end up being injured and , if you are caught , you will be charged , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 23 | BEWARE of taking part in karaoke — you may end up hurtling towards the ground from a great height with only a length of elastic preventing a headlong dive to oblivion . |
| 24 | For instance , if you were kept hostage in Iraq with someone whom you thought would never be your type of friend , you may end up being the best of friends all because you have shared the same problems and experiences . |
| 25 | If MacCabe 's views on the value of a good row are right , then 1992 may offer some stranger cultural exchanges than expected : we may end up putting our mouths where their money is . |
| 26 | As a result , the blood is deprived of much of the oxygen it needs to feed the body tissues , so we may end up feeling listless or suffer vagueness of thought . |
| 27 | And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated . |
| 28 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 29 | To illustrate how the inequalities which underlie such possession afflictions are always and necessarily relative ( rather than absolute ) , we may end this short list of examples by referring to the Santeria cult currently popular amongst Cuban refugees in mainland America . |
| 30 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |