Example sentences of "end [adv prt] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
2 | Nevertheless , the dominant female still ends up with most eggs . |
3 | Few sufferers are able to stop and many of them end up with multiple amputations . |
4 | ‘ Counterfeiting is a form of theft which hits customers who end up with sub-standard goods , honest traders who can not compete with rivals who market cut-price alternatives and manufacturers of the genuine articles . ’ |
5 | Otherwise , you could find that you get the piles of pressed material confused , and end up with two pictures that are very similar rather than two individual designs . |
6 | Funnily enough a sing a double wardrobe which is four foot wide and eighteen inches deep if you split it in half , as the old ones could be , you end up with two pieces two feet and they actually can go up the stairs cos you can just get them underneath . |
7 | The basic difference is that simple carbohydrates are refined complex carbohydrates , so that if you remove the nutrients from the complex carbohydrates you end up with simple ones . |
8 | That 's why you end up with nine pints is it ? |
9 | That was the great virtue of boozing , to go into a pub by yourself and end up with fifteen mates just for the night . |
10 | As anyone who has ever attempted it will know , driving nails or picture hooks into a concrete brick wall is not always an easy task — more often than not , you end up with bent nails , and quite possibly , damaged masonry . |
11 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
12 | Women who start having babies early end up with more babies than average , and this is the single most important statistical determinant of final family size ( Kiernan 1987 ) . |
13 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
14 | The natural tendency is probably to insert a row , copy it down , insert another row and copy it down , insert a row and copy it down , er , you need to do all your inserting first and then copy your formulae cos otherwise you end up with wrong formulae . |
15 | Put together research on spelling , and the evidence of experienced teachers , and you end up with handy hints like this . |
16 | And you will , if you do n't end up with a house fire you may end up with nasty burns or even electric shock . |
17 | If you continue to knit , you will end up with dropped stitches and probably jam the carriage after a very short time . |
18 | So it 'll end up with cosy chats in the Beak 's office . |
19 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
20 | ( k ) Related sale As noted above most clients will be very worried about whether they will end up with two properties or none . |
21 | I know I 'll end up with two pairs of shoes similar but |
22 | The leg-spinner , Ian Salisbury , proved the most expensive , conceding 142 runs from just 29 overs , though he did end up with two wickets including that of Tendulkar . |
23 | If your footwear is uncomfortable you will not only end up with sore feet or blisters but you could become a danger to yourself or , worse , still , to others who might have to come and rescue you . |
24 | If you do end up with crossed wires , keep calm ! |
25 | But the world may end up with both projects , a waste of resources that will stunt other science — and might well hold back particle physics , as generations of physicists find themselves growing up in thrall to the vast machines , with no alternative experiments to pursue . |
26 | You could end up with brown patches that wo n't go away . |
27 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
28 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
29 | ‘ If I kept scoring at my present rate I would end up with 40 goals but you know you 're going to have a lean spell at some time . |
30 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |