Example sentences of "and end up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this ruse gives a chance for Nestor and the gallery of small time crooks and pimps to be transported to Devil 's Island , an escape on a raft in a storm and end up at the North Pole for a sequence with a dancing penguin and a polar bear , to give the show a Christmas gloss . |
| 2 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 3 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 4 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 5 | You could sell your present home , move into smaller accommodation and end up with the double bonus of pocketing a lump sum and reducing your running costs . |
| 6 | Descriptions of sea water tend , however lavishly written , to blow themselves out and end up in the doldrums . |
| 7 | fictitious site of the shooting picnic at which Pickwick drinks too much punch and end up in the pound . |
| 8 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 9 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 10 | I 've seen better men than you think they could handle the drink and end up in the gutter with a bottle of the fortified wine . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Or you 'll find this time that you will be court-martialled and end up in the gaol you were originally intended for . ’ |