Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was in New Orleans , when the alcoholic fog lifted for a while , that he wrote eleven hundred pages in a four-month period ending in early 1987 . |
| 2 | Similarly will the employee lose out when coming back to Britain ending up two or three years behind the progress of peers who stayed at home ? |
| 3 | " People who cross her , have a habit of ending up dead , " Dan said , without looking at Patrick . |
| 4 | His family believes Fred , from Hereford , Hereford and Worcester , took a wrong turn in the torrential rain , ending up 50 miles from his destination of the Brecon Beacon mountains . |
| 5 | I could envisage a long-drawn-out court case with us all ending up homeless and bankrupt , sleeping in cardboard boxes and begging for crumbs from the rich man 's Scandinavian table , and I do n't like raw herrings , yuk ! |
| 6 | Both defecting ( refusing to pull ticks off ) is pretty bad , but not so bad as putting effort into pulling another 's ticks off and still ending up infested with ticks oneself . |
| 7 | Four cars derailed , two rolling on their side and ending up 20 yards from the line . |
| 8 | At times they can be nightmarish — screaming and hollering through Side One of ‘ Nurse ’ — and elsewhere they have the ability to make a laid-back sound without ending up horizontal like Teenage Fanclub . |
| 9 | Brian Anderson , the Quakers ' club secretary , added : ‘ It 's awful to hear of a young fan ending up this way . |
| 10 | Because the Advanced Courses officially finished at any time from June through to December 1984 , the question of timing became significant ( one course officially ends in early 1985 ) . |
| 11 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |
| 12 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 13 | Where firms produce identical outputs and have identical constant marginal costs equilibrium price ends up equal to this common cost . |
| 14 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 15 | What should be a harrowing 90 minutes in hell ends up another tedious tourist nightmare devoid of historical perspective . |
| 16 | Once the width between the eyes had been determined and marked out , George worked on both eyes ; that way , neither eye ends up larger than the other . |
| 17 | And Jesus said that God 's dominion , the rule of Heaven , is something like a mustard seed which starts out tiny and ends up big . |
| 18 | Scenes like this are happening thousands of times every day throughout Britain , as cars like this one end up wrecked by joyriders . |
| 19 | I could run five minutes faster than last year and still end up fifth , or lower . ’ |
| 20 | It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually . |
| 21 | Most people end up neither of them are prepared |
| 22 | That 's why so many poets end up rich , |
| 23 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 24 | I try and eat the rest of the doughnut as neat as I can but I end up all sugary and sticky . |
| 25 | Can you climb two or three flights of stairs , reasonably fast and taking the steps two at a time , and not end up breathless ? |
| 26 | Although it was not the case when Paul was stabbed , those carrying knives often have the blade turned back on them , and Mr Wood is anxious that no more young people end up injured or worse . |
| 27 | It is women who end up imprisoned in their own homes by the threat of racial and sexual violence on housing estates and the streets . |
| 28 | People frequently end up disillusioned , and even hostile to the part the church has played , rather than finding it helpful . |
| 29 | Complainants often end up disillusioned with the system of redress and angry with the whole medical profession ; and the doctor against whom the complaint was made is often also traumatised by the experience . |
| 30 | If this was how things worked , just about every war veteran that ever was would ‘ inevitably ’ end up homeless because of their past . |