Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 9 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 10 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 11 | 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 . ) . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Here 's a checklist to help ensure you end up with the right advice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | Whichever we use we end up with the following integration for the potential of an infinite line charge : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well I hope they do because you end up with the wrong bloody solution if you just go at it like that . |
| 22 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 23 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fun arises when members of both teams end up on the same leaf . |
| 26 | Only if some people , ‘ because of their special circumstances — because they are crippled or lack talents prized in the market , or for some such reason — end up below the minimum standard of living required to lead a decent , self-fulfilling life at all ’ ( Dworkin , 1978a , pp. 244 , 258 ) would they have a right to ‘ a minimum standard ’ , even at the expense of the general welfare . |
| 27 | Will the right hon. Gentleman further explain to my constituent why people who reach that age end up in the appalling position of having all their age allowances clawed back by the Government ? |
| 28 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
| 29 | Out in the crisp , clear air , with a backdrop of mountains and a clear run ahead : wherever you choose in the world to ski — fashionable Switzerland , sexy , stylish Italy , star-struck Colorado — our run-down of high life destinations will make sure you end up in the right place . |
| 30 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |