Example sentences of "[verb] end up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 2 | After much lobbying , it has ended up as a liberal edict . |
| 3 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
| 4 | It is indisputable , however , that much of the money made available by the EEC and by national governments for price support ( guidance and guarantee ) as well as for structural purposes has ended up in the richer regions . |
| 5 | The two-layered cameo of Augustus which has ended up in the British Museum bears tangible evidence of regard , even of awe , in the delicate circlet of gems , including a miniature cameo , affixed to it while in the hands of a medieval owner ( fig. 26 ) . |
| 6 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 7 | I want to restore my 1967 LWB and hope to end up with a functional , economic vehicle . |
| 8 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 9 | Not every idea we have is going to end up as a full research project . |
| 10 | Not just republican , we have loyalists as well and the loyalists have the potential for being the bigger and more effective of the two , and if we let the I R A to continue without interning them , you are going to have the situation deteriorating in the way which you do n't want and I do n't want , and you 're going to end up as the chief constable of the R U C said a few weeks ago with Dublin being bombed . |
| 11 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 12 | So if you know that just by opening the door you 're bound to end up with a space-age vacuum cleaner , 50 encyclopaedias , a new patio or a tarmac-covered drive , you could try hiding in the broom cupboard until he 's gone . |
| 13 | It 's not much after what you 've just been through , but I 'd hate to end up in a French jail and , as I forgot my licence , I 'm not insured to move this car . ’ |
| 14 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 15 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 16 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 17 | Otherwise , with all those emotions swirling around inside , I might have ended up in a mental hospital banging my head against a wall , screaming ‘ mama' . ’ |
| 18 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 19 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 20 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 21 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 22 | It 's quite common when changing old basin taps to end up with a cracked basin . |
| 23 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
| 24 | And of course what very often happens these days , with such a high level of unemployment , is if it 's a fine that 's decided upon — and I think something like in three-quarters of the cases dealt with by Magistrates do end up with a fine — that it has to be scaled down because of the erm poor circumstance , poor financial circumstance in which the defendant is . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder what dreadful thing I did to end up as a human being ? ’ |
| 26 | Of course , this actually never happens but surprisingly people do seem to end up in the correct position . |
| 27 | It seemed rather typical of her luck that she had ended up with the wrong sort of cat , and she could n't help wondering if Miss Hardbroom had made sure that the misfit kitten had been given to Mildred , rather than someone like Ethel . |
| 28 | The governor 's pet was found by joggers after fears that she had ended up in a Chinese meal . |
| 29 | Without being particularly conscious of where they were going , he and Cora-Beth had ended up in the big barn containing bales of straw for the loose boxes . |
| 30 | It sounds like you 've ended up with a reasonable machine in the end , though , and Works is a good integrated software package . |