Example sentences of "he ended [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later sources had it that the king was murdered : Geoffrey le Baker , writing thirty years after the event , provides the vivid details of the brutal and degrading way in which he is supposed to have met his death , but Dr Cuttino and Dr Lyman have recently suggested that the story of his escape to Ireland and then via France to Cologne where he ended up as a hermit may not be wholly imaginary . |
| 2 | Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game , but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end . |
| 3 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
| 4 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 5 | He heard electrical impulses behind a large , old-fashioned enamelled flour bin on a high shelf in the kitchen and got out the step-ladder to investigate , bringing down the bin , which hit and broke a jar of clear honey in its descent ; he ended up with a mixture of flour and honey all over himself , the fridge and the floor . |
| 6 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 7 | The grandfather , a former soldier in India and retired horseman , had had a leg amputated : ‘ he ended up wi' a stump , so he used to sit in this … old chair in the corner … and nurse Aunt Lillie 's children . ’ |
| 8 | Long years later , he ended up in a workhouse and it was from that vantage point that he ‘ launched his attack upon the world of letters . ’ |
| 9 | But he ended up in a scuffle and the youth was wounded . |
| 10 | A course of antibiotics enabled him to continue and he ended up in a tie for second place alongside Jose Maria Olazabal . |
| 11 | He ended up in a thorn bush where he finally managed to break free from his billowing parachute . |
| 12 | During one of his first trips abroad , to Prague , he ended up in a hotel like this and ‘ thought desperately of my own town on the shores of the Mediterranean , of the summer evenings that I love so much , so gentle in the green light and full of young and beautiful women ’ . |
| 13 | The general theme was that Walter could muddle through with Mum and Dad , but because they died , he ended up in a horror show . |