Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] up in [art] " in BNC.

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1 The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’
2 They may turn up in a show of force in the Market Square . ’
3 They must lie up in the caves , if we do send refugees here , and in the pinewoods and the tall juniper — they will do even in the winter .
4 ‘ No , they 'll end up in the pawnshop , ’ I sobbed .
5 stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law .
6 Otherwise they might end up in the sea , which neither of them wanted .
7 The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past .
8 The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping .
9 They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up .
10 They will grow up in a world of many hostile enemies and one or two protective parents .
11 In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable .
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