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People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end.

In real time, an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end.

Perhaps that's why he was replaced 60 years ago by the Archers - less likely to come to a sticky end.

"He does come to a sticky end, you know."

The king himself gives more attention to his personal pleasures, and comes to a sticky end.)

"And the slasher comes to a sticky end hi the bonfire.

Anyone who laughs at Dummy comes to a sticky end, so I've been told.'

One former monk of Cleeve rose to prominence and came to a sticky end.

Beyond the oak-grained double doors, a Schubert impromptu was coming to a sticky end.

'Some poor creature about to come to a sticky end, I imagine.

And so, I suppose, I wasn't really surprised at her coming to a sticky end.

'Talk about coming to a sticky end,' Angelique observed.

Each episode saw him try various nefarious methods to bring customers from the small shop to his store, but would inevitably come to a sticky end.

'He's obviously a bad influence, and as he's a compulsive gambler, he's going to come to a sticky end.'

'She'll come to a sticky end one day, chewing all that gum, you see if she doesn't.'

She saw Snubby drinking in every word, eager to ask about the people who 'had come to a sticky end.' '

There is a popular story that Hugh de Grandmesnil almost came to a sticky end at the battle of Hastings.

I can't recall any of the Glasgow solicitor mafia having come to a sticky end in the time-scale we're considering.'

First of all, you would have to get there by traveling in imaginary time and not care that your history in real time came to a sticky end.

You won't come to any harm if you play fair with me and your partners but you'll come to a sticky end if you don't!"

The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities.

Really, his point made - a kind of behave yourself young lad, or you will come to a sticky end - he stood up and wandered back to the bar.

A group of students battle the bears in an attempt to save Clevenger, but Clevenger and his wife ultimately come to a sticky end.

For Staufen was where Doktor Faustus, having made his own rather more spectacular compact with the Devil, came to a sticky end.

A reluctant Asterix and Obelix go with him after Getafix tells them not doing so could make the story come to a sticky end.

Jackie meets a sticky end, when he is stabbed by Terry.

History is littered with absolute monarchs who met a sticky end - whether by guillotine, firing squad or the executioner's axe.

As political economist Eric Helleiner has shown, with every crisis comes a new proposal for a sovereign debt workout mechanism that meets a sticky end.

THE first professional landscape artist to make his home in rugged northwest Connecticut met a sticky end, gored by a bull while sketching in a field.

What was a story about an evil-intentioned crocodile that meets a sticky end is now a story about friendship and respect for animals, especially the reptiles that were the writer's current favourite animal.

On television, she appeared in the hit series Prisoner as Kay White, the payroll-embezzling accountant at Andrew Reynold's factory who met a sticky end when her gambling addiction gets the better of her.

Copies of the cassette 'Ooh Aah, Cantona' were sold out within six weeks of hitting record shops in the city; now they are likely to meet a sticky end on bonfires reminiscent of anti-Beatles protests in the 1960s.

Light turns Gwendoline and her missing mother, revealed to be Mrs Pritchard, to stone in a bid to stop the speed of evolution; while Inspector Mackenzie meets a sticky end and is turned into a primordial soup to serve at dinner.

Jason entertained briefly the idea of denying all knowledge of the matter, which would be a neat revenge against Snarbi, who would certainly meet a sticky end for causing all this trouble for nothing, but he -discarded the thought as quickly as it had come.