Example sentences of "and end up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 6 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 10 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Descriptions of sea water tend , however lavishly written , to blow themselves out and end up in the doldrums . |
| 13 | fictitious site of the shooting picnic at which Pickwick drinks too much punch and end up in the pound . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Or you 'll find this time that you will be court-martialled and end up in the gaol you were originally intended for . ’ |
| 18 | He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor . |
| 19 | There , he 'd worked for the Corps ' news service , been wounded , gone home to study journalism at college and ended up with the Associated Press . |
| 20 | They made council housing a priority , and they halved the housing , they promised a better deal for local government and ended up with the elderly freezing in their homes , rubbish piled in the streets and the dead unburied . |
| 21 | In July he was thrown out of his hostel and ended up at the Jews ’ Temporary Shelter in the East End . |
| 22 | It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why . |
| 23 | She wanted to spend as much time as possible with them and ended up at the other end of the plane . ’ |
| 24 | I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker . |
| 25 | This resulted in farce : ‘ I have never forgotten seeing footage of a British manager which began on his moccasined feet , wafted over his monogrammed door mat , and ended up opposite the sofa on which lounged five of his charges , scowling greasily ’ . |
| 26 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 27 | It was a bizarre incident , which created a vicious and public rift between some of Scotland 's most gifted players , and ended up in the ignominy of a High Court hearing . |
| 28 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 29 | Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |