Example sentences of "end up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response showed a significant shift , with more people ending up opposing the death penalty , even for the specific offence of terrorist murder . |
| 2 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 3 | At least we were earning some money , and they were ending up owing the company money I think . |
| 4 | Eyes light up , the conversation becomes more intense , team spirit takes on all the zeal of an ideology , facts flow , and one ends up getting the impression of being a part of … a Great Dawn . |
| 5 | This practice would have to continue , so the government would have first to buy the data from whoever ends up operating the craft . |
| 6 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 7 | In a recent hard-core pornographic film from Denmark , the woman ends up killing the man . |
| 8 | Whoever ends up fighting the election , Mr Kishen suggested , royal parentage will not matter as much to Bharatpur voters as the government 's abysmal record on rural development , inflation and corruption and its failure to fulfil promises made during the 1984 campaign . |
| 9 | You probably end up writing the system file quicker , and have a much simpler system which also maintain in far less time . |
| 10 | In California there was no competition , in Maryland there was no competition , every place that G Tec operates , they go in , they hire the highest price talent , they hire the most politically connected talent and they end up getting the contract . |
| 11 | Otherwise , if the oil is not at the right temperature , you end up boiling the food rather than deep-frying it . ’ |
| 12 | In one type of exchange , called gene conversion , two initially slightly different copies end up sharing the DNA sequence of one of them . |
| 13 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 14 | And I do n't think it 's good for the game to see defenders and keepers under so much pressure that they repeatedly end up booting the ball into the stand . ’ |
| 15 | They are at the expense of people who have nothing to do with the production or consumption of a product — but who end up paying the costs . |
| 16 | The purchaser , more often than not , is a University or institutional library which has not forgotten the value of books that previous generations have preserved — in this case for the people of England , though the libraries that end up owning the books are usually abroad . |
| 17 | But I think all the time where you have to keep on fighting all the time , so now like you get so mouthy in the end you ca n't shut up , you know [ laughs ] , you end up winning the argument 'cos you ca n't shut up , like . |
| 18 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 19 | But , as the Institute 's Council found last month , when it considered a preliminary paper on the subject , openness could actually end up destroying the effectiveness of the disciplinary process altogether . |
| 20 | He 'd most likely end up eating the grain he 'd nicked from Mrs Wright for the pheasants . |
| 21 | You would go in there planning to discuss , say , her habit of ogling men in restaurants or her inability to repay money she had borrowed , or her ability to disseminate confidences throughout the whole of Wimbledon about five minutes after they had been imparted to her , and you would end up discussing the state of affairs in Europe , the merits of Beethoven , or , more usually , your own deficiencies . |
| 22 | It was said that Ago and its ancillaries would end up costing the taxpayer £1.5 billion . |
| 23 | ‘ We have to take advantage of other countries ’ experiences to the greatest possible extent , ’ said Mr Vedernikov , ‘ but we have to make sure we do n't end up inventing the bicycle . ’ |
| 24 | I would say for people attending Day Centres , the majority of people will end up paying the charge , or a reduced level of charge , because it 's not all or nothing , we can waive part of the charge as well . |
| 25 | After another penny tram ride Charlie was beginning to wonder where he would end up spending the night . |
| 26 | If you just want to give the ball a tonk with your new Krypton-shafted driver , you 'll end up spending the day knee-deep in heather . |
| 27 | For one thing your own troops will probably end up blocking the line of sight . |
| 28 | Parents may end up fighting the children 's battles and undermining each other 's attempts at discipline . |
| 29 | Do they end up working the way we 've got to bloody work here on this tiny pension or the pension that they 've earned as an MP |
| 30 | Whatever happens , I always seem to end up watching The South Bank Show , something I never do normally ; the changing of the clocks is forever associated with the Arts and adenoids . |