Example sentences of "end [adv prt] in the [noun sg] of " 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 ( 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 .
3 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 .
4 If you went all the way across the Lake of Dreams you 'd end up in the Lake of Death .
5 He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor .
6 ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords .
10 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 .
11 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.
12 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 .
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