Example sentences of "end up [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 2 | Besides , she did n't want to take such a step merely for escape 's sake and perhaps find herself ending up as a prisoner in just another house in just another town . |
| 3 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 4 | does he always end up with a summing in , summing up ? |
| 5 | ‘ If thieves have taken to the roads you 're likely to end up with a hole in you like … ’ |
| 6 | A mathematical analogy might help us to see what is involved here : to affirm a real affirmation is positive , but to affirm something which is itself negative is to end up with a negative in the same way — no better than what we are criticizing . |
| 7 | I 've ended up with a drink in the face , exit really quickly , her boyfriend did n't really like it much … ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 10 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |