Example sentences of "would end [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there honestly a single person in the country , the Prime Minister included , who could have dared to predict that the Conservatives would end up with the largest number of votes ever recorded in a British election ? |
| 2 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |
| 3 | The danger was that the department would end up with the worst of both worlds — an integrated service provided in a hastily planned way , foisted on staff unprepared for the challenge and lacking the positive commitment and support that is so necessary from specialist staff and their managers . |
| 4 | Without this control the world would be in madness and we would end up with the laws of the jungle , where the strongest wins . |
| 5 | Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid . |
| 6 | To add to the stigma of the wicked stage , the men also feared that their daughters would end up on the streets of Paris . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , all the light would end up on the floor ! |
| 8 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ I knew this would end up in the papers sooner or later . ’ |
| 10 | When a group of anti-embargo Americans organised a flotilla of 13 boats carrying aid to church organisations in Cuba from the Florida Keys on April 24th , right-wing groups were convinced that the stuff would end up in the hands of Mr Castro and the armed forces . |
| 11 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |