Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size .
2 It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’
3 This is very difficult to do , and unless the practitioner is careful she ends up resembling the Prime Minister feigning compassion in the face of some disaster .
4 And that the one with the smaller ban ends up missing the senior inter-provincials as a result .
5 I must say it 's pretty funny that a chap like him ends up playing a Jesuit priest having doctrinal disputes in the rain forest .
6 It ends up becoming an ordinary political thriller fitting the ‘ TV Cop ’ genre .
7 At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance .
8 The tenant ends up paying the same amount , but because he will have received a tax invoice he can claim input relief , subject to the normal rules .
9 You end up speaking the same jargon or formulae as the establishment without stopping to think .
10 They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time .
11 ‘ I always end up wearing the same old make-up , but just a little bit less of it , ’ admitted one frustrated friend .
12 Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit .
13 So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast .
14 If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams .
15 They end up learning a great deal about themselves and each other .
16 A new computer simulator 's been designed to teach drivers how to handle a skid before they end up learning the hard way .
17 Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same .
18 As you write the essay you may find that the focus shifts , with the result that you end up rejecting the original title and finding a more suitable one .
19 IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under .
20 I get very uptight over what to say without upsetting him , so when we do finally talk I end up saying the wrong things .
21 Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain .
22 Most backpackers end up owning a modest selection of stoves to cover varying conditions .
23 Major ignored the prophets of financial doom who fear the taxpayer could end up footing a massive bill by insisting : ‘ I think it 's a good bargain for all of us . ’
24 It is common to seek a whitewash in a reverse takeover where the shareholders of the target company will end up holding a controlling interest in the acquiring company .
25 In fact , if you think you may end up wanting a second machine ( of a different gauge ) as well as a standard gauge , it makes sense to buy the model without a KnitRadar and then buy the KnitRadar as an add-on accessory which you can use with whichever machine you are knitting on .
26 ‘ Else thee 'll end up scrubbing the bloody step like me . ’
27 If you do end up hiring an unsafe tool , inform your local trading standards officer immediately .
28 The sad thing is such behaviour will only end up getting the poor stalker or ghillie the sack so it 's not worth the trouble .
29 The second drawback is that if you spend too much time standing back , commenting on what 's going on , using humour and changing the subject you may end up disrupting a collective sense of purpose and fail to meet your objective .
30 She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion .
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