Example sentences of "end [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 2 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 3 | There is indeed a suggestive correlation between the mode of fertilization and the sex that ends up looking after the young . |
| 4 | First take-offs are a bit hairy , and despite the instructor 's words of caution everyone ends up running behind a wildly-accelerating aircraft gently but surely swerving to the left . |
| 5 | On each occasion the fish ends up lying on the tank floor breathing heavily until it dies . |
| 6 | The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems . |
| 7 | The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems . |
| 8 | Uma Thurman stars as a hitch-hiker who ends up working at a pansexual beauty ranch , where she joins fellow workers in rebelling against the owners and their male-servicing feminine hygiene products . |
| 9 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 10 | However , although phase space volume on average contracts in a dissipative system , so that trajectories passing through a large volume of phase space end up passing through a smaller volume , this does not mean that distance ( or separation ) is also contracting . |
| 11 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 12 | Struggling vainly to inject some sense of brooding threat into the proceedings , the brat pack cast experiment endlessly with tough-guy grimaces but end up looking like a bunch of snotty schoolkids with soap in their eyes . |
| 13 | Most hobbyists , however , usually end up investing in a rechargeable resin that is effective and easy to use ; the original and best-known resin cartridge is the Nitragon . |
| 14 | Both user and non-user end up searching at the shelves . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , the reports and test results we issue are not all welcomed by manufacturers but there really is only a tiny percentage who end up carping about the magazine . ’ |
| 16 | You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . |
| 17 | It 's one of those nightmarish hands where you end up playing in a no trump contract with absolutely no guard in one of the suits , and the different approach taken by the respective declarers is highly instructive . |
| 18 | Most people end up relying upon the colourful packets , tins and jars of commercial baby foods , which at least promise lots of vitamins and no longer have added salt , sugar , colours or artificial flavours . |
| 19 | If you 've just done a 12-mile ridge-walk then I 'm sure nothing will be further from your thoughts , but if you plan a weekend away with a person you 've fancied for ages and somehow end up heading for a bothy , unless you are totally alone any thought of a fumble in the sleeping-bag should be out of the question . |
| 20 | erm some of the stuff that we end up doing in the second and final year you do n't easily access through general textbooks because it 's quite specialist |
| 21 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 22 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 23 | ‘ Highly talented designers end up working in a creative vacuum ’ |
| 24 | What will happen to their pay packets when they end up working in the private sector , often for less money — because we know that the national health service is simply a Bill away from being privatised ? |
| 25 | if you end up going to the office and it 's the same layout as it it it was and the same people there , |
| 26 | BEWARE of taking part in karaoke — you may end up hurtling towards the ground from a great height with only a length of elastic preventing a headlong dive to oblivion . |
| 27 | But unless the offers , like £10 off a suit , make enough of us buy , the experts fear the campaign will end up biting into the M&S profit margins . |
| 28 | In Switzerland the gynaecologist would not let you put on too much weight because he was concerned that you 'd end up looking like an old cow and |
| 29 | If you were back in your own house and subject to the same old strains you might end up getting into the same sort of scrape again . |
| 30 | Yes I 'll just end up talking to a secretary whereas something |