Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 2 | And there is also irony in the way Pip treated Magwitch ; loathing him and not bearing to touch him and ending up loving him and holding his hand in court . |
| 3 | The Hurricane caught fire upon landing , ending up burnt out , with pilot S/L Allan Martin escaping from the aircraft with a broken ankle . |
| 4 | but they are ending up draw , actually doing literally a capital K and then just joining it up , which is not |
| 5 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 6 | Coaching can be a great help — but it can also get in the way , for slavishly following a pedantic teacher can produce very strange results , with the candidate ending up trying to sound like someone he or she is n't . |
| 7 | There 's several chapters convincing you that your kid really needs a computer at home ( but you know that or you would n't have bought the book ! ) and there 's a danger of ending up convincing yourself that your offspring could become educationally subnormal unless you get a computer immediately . |
| 8 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The problem is that unless you have absolutely plain walls , there will be a number of obstacles to tile round , and you have to decide how to get the best fit round them with your inflexible tile squares , without ending up cutting impossibly thin slivers to fill in all the gaps . |
| 11 | John and Mary opened in Hollywood on 25 November 1969 , starting off sluggishly , but ending up making $1.2 million profit . |
| 12 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 13 | It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’ |
| 14 | Nice people ending up clogging this plughole when the PZs were full of undeserving wankers , wallies , wasters and wooftahs . |
| 15 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 16 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Erm how about erm when it 's great big little lumps of ice falling down what do you call that ends in ail ? |
| 19 | The resulting picture looks strangely like a kind of modernism — a romantic-technological modernism — which ends up valuing innovation almost for its own sake . |
| 20 | Operation of the C 2 rotation axis shifts H a to where H b was , and vice versa , so the corresponding pair of arrows ends up reversed compared to the starting pair . |
| 21 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 22 | Typical is Arthur Seton in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) , described by the film 's director Karel Reisz , as ‘ a sad person , terribly limited in his sensibilities , narrow in his ambitions and a bloody fool into the bargain ’ who ends up throwing a stone towards the housing estate that is his final destination , declaring with more bravado than honesty , ‘ It wo n't be the last one I 'll throw . ’ |
| 23 | If Thatcher ends up opposing that sort of modernisation of institutions , then she will deserve to be denounced as simply reactionary and perverse . |
| 24 | He ends up serving Laban for twenty years , in which time he has his wages changed ten times ( and that does not mean continually increased , either ) . |
| 25 | He leaps across the room to tear Babur 's head off , but Babur slips neatly back and Keith ends up clutching him lower down , around the waist , his open mouth falling towards … |
| 26 | Another hazard is the wind swinging and increasing during the day so that the glider ends up parked facing directly into the wind . |
| 27 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 28 | As Gwen , an endearing liar and fantasist , Goldie literally invades Martin 's home — and ends up stealing his heart . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | The intellectual mind is the product of the brain and the initiator of thought but its passion for analysis and argument often ends up shedding confusion , rather than light , on any subject . |