Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 2 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 3 | Clearly , unless these features are defined with precision , there is a danger of ending up with a tautological explanation : what is recent must also be novel because it is recent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead it goes on growing , ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult . |
| 6 | After settling her bill , she went for a walk through the hotel grounds , ending up beside a pretty little river meandering gently through a meadow , and sat down on a boulder , barely feeling the coolness of the air as she gazed into the silvery , rippling waters . |
| 7 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | When they hit the ground , they may stop abruptly , embedding themselves still glowing , fuming and sizzling slightly in the loose ash ; or they may bounce off , to leap down the steep sides of the cone in a series of great bounds , developing a rapid spin as they do so , and whirring downhill like cannonballs , ending up in a rattling shower of small stones at the bottom . |
| 9 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 10 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 11 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 12 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You make an interesting comment about your wife 's experiences that ones ends up with a private practice . |
| 16 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 17 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
| 20 | But if the exchange is unequal , one chromosome ends up with an extra copy of the segment and the other without the particular segment . |
| 21 | ‘ This means the muscles go flat instead of round and the butcher ends up with an inferior eye muscle . |
| 22 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
| 23 | This may mean returning it to the dealer or manufacturer , but certainly not incinerating it or throwing it out with other household waste that ends up in a shallow landfill . |
| 24 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |
| 25 | Now this kind of behaviour often ends up in a fierce debate about guidebook descriptions and grades of the participants ' favourite routes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 28 | Now this slide really takes the behind , takes us behind the first figure on the on the consolidated F R S One cash flow table and it really traces hard despite the reduction in profits , the very strong performance in working capital that Frank eluded to earlier means that er we actually end up with a net cash flow for operating activities more than thirty five million pounds higher . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |