Example sentences of "end [adv prt] in the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only about 20 per cent of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas in either process , so carbonisation is not an efficient method for producing a carbon-based gas from coal . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ( I suspect it 's his way of getting some vegetables down me considering the number of soft , plump leaves that end up in the bottom of my cup when the pot gets to be half full of the things . |
| 5 | And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical . |
| 6 | If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life . |
| 7 | If you went all the way across the Lake of Dreams you 'd end up in the Lake of Death . |
| 8 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |
| 9 | He had looked at his wife 's unguarded face and forgotten for a moment that life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall , your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’ |
| 11 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 12 | We ended up in the bar opposite the gates of the camp . |
| 13 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 14 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 15 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 16 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 17 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They are wrong in their views of righteousness , supposing Jesus to be a sinner like themselves — and worse because he ended up in the place of cursing on a cross ( cf. |
| 20 | I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate . |
| 21 | 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 . |