Example sentences of "end [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
| 2 | Questions biting at her like rats , ending up with the sharpest bite of all . |
| 3 | But they argue that factors such as regional variations , better Tory organisation in marginal constituencies and the ‘ incumbency ’ factor where sitting MPs are defending seats , could result in the Conservatives ending up as the largest party , if not with a narrow overall majority . |
| 4 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 5 | In general , they tend to follow a more or less logical sequence , starting at the top with a headline ( assuming it is there ) and ending up in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 6 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | One consequence of the exclusive pursuit of the selfish and self-indulgent ethos of the naked fabliau is that the Shipman 's Tale , unlike the majority of the French fabliaux , contains no concluding moral , ending instead on the selfish prayer : The failure of a moral to appear here is emphasized by the fact that the Host immediately tries to draw a moral from the tale — an appropriately pragmatic one : It could and has been held that the Shipman 's Tale is thereby amoral . |
| 8 | Last year we had the fine Scottish Opera production in Newcastle , now it is the turn of Darlington with this production , which ends tonight at the Civic Theatre . |
| 9 | The main road which follows the north shores of Varanger Fiord ends just past the small town of Vardø , but a rough track continues on round the headland . |
| 10 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |
| 11 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 12 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 13 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 14 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 15 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 16 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 17 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 18 | Having made sure that the rear cross-spars are correctly located , the bridle is clear and the stand-off sockets in their right places , push the spar ends well into the leading edge vinyls . |
| 19 | The 10,000km journey , which is being supported by Virgin and the Japanese pharmaceuticals firm , Otsuka , will begin in south Japan and should end just off the Californian coast , or in open countryside near Los Angeles . |
| 20 | Here 's a checklist to help ensure you end up with the right advice . |
| 21 | You must do all the inserts first and then copy down so that you end up with the right formula at the end of the day which is the C five , C eight . |
| 22 | They too have assumed that there is something natural and self-evident about the human individual as a separate physical body , but then , in order to distinguish their own field of enquiry from that of the physical anthropologists , they have reified their special concept of culture to a point where we end up with the implicit definition : " Culture is everything which concerns the life and behaviour of human beings which is not an aspect of human nature , as the physical anthropologists perceive it . " |
| 23 | Whichever we use we end up with the following integration for the potential of an infinite line charge : |
| 24 | We substitute those into the Z scores and lo and behold , at the bottom of the page , you end up with the maximum value of those of the product of X Y , sorry Z X and Z Y is N minus one . |
| 25 | You could sell your present home , move into smaller accommodation and end up with the double bonus of pocketing a lump sum and reducing your running costs . |
| 26 | Both continue to COOPERATE until the end of the game , and both end up with the full 100 per cent ‘ benchmark ’ score of 600 points . |
| 27 | Well I hope they do because you end up with the wrong bloody solution if you just go at it like that . |
| 28 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 29 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 30 | Ordinarily the referee and judge remain on opposite sides of the contestants but sometimes , for example when the latter are circling each other , both end up on the same side . |