Example sentences of "[coord] end [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
2 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
3 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
4 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
5 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
6 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
7 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
8 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
9 | In Sailors Three ( 1940 , Three Cockeyed Sailors in US ) , Tommy Trinder and his companions get drunk and end up on a German ship which , more by mishap than demon cunning , they occupy and deliver to their commander . |
10 | You discover a long lost pocket of goodness in your soul and end up with a sore neck after adopting a passable imitation of a toy dog on the back shelf of a car . |
11 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
12 | It probably dates back to The Beatles when Richard Starkey became Ringo the millionaire and Pete Best kept his real name and ended up as a civil servant . |
13 | The Single European Act started as a grandiose design and ended up as a workmanlike blueprint for a free market . |
14 | LISA Cosh rang the Dial A New Body hotline for advice on her tummy — and ended up with a new lifestyle . |
15 | She failed her eleven-plus and ended up at a local secondary modern school , which turned out to be a blessing in disguise . |
16 | Speed is into strenuous challenges these days — he went head over the top of one of their defenders at one point and ended up in a crumpled heap in front of the ref , who was pointing for a free kick in the opposite direction . |
17 | So I was taken into care again , went to an assessment centre and ended up in an approved school for girls in Hertfordshire . |
18 | Pam Wright was three over at the turn but ended up with a level par 73 and a four-round total of 293. 930319 |