Example sentences of "end up [prep] [art] [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 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 .
3 And ending up with a thumping great lie .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Instead it goes on growing , ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 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 ) .
13 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 !
14 He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic .
19 She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 You make an interesting comment about your wife 's experiences that ones ends up with a private practice .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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
26 If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ .
27 So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it .
28 But if the exchange is unequal , one chromosome ends up with an extra copy of the segment and the other without the particular segment .
29 ‘ This means the muscles go flat instead of round and the butcher ends up with an inferior eye muscle .
30 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 .
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