Example sentences of "and ended up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the Restoration he had regained the lands he had lost when the king was defeated , and ended up as a Vice-Admiral of the Fleet .
2 Last season , United 's Carl Bradshaw was caught in confrontation with Chelsea 's Vinnie at Stamford Bridge by a camera behind the goal and ended up on a disrepute charge , even though the match officials missed the incident .
3 He tried to slap Killion on the shoulder and missed , and ended up on the floor .
4 In January this year those photos of Wyatt with Fergie and her children were conveniently found in an apartment once rented by the Texan and ended up with a newspaper .
5 ‘ Maybe she once fought the Scots and ended up with a bagpipe chanter in a nasty place . ’
6 But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked .
7 Her case suggests the potency of the ‘ self-fulfilling prophecy ’ ; she found maths increasingly difficult and ended up with a grade D A level .
8 So that 's what I did one day and ended up with a job . ’
9 Everyone knows of someone who is said to have paid £500 for a horse advertised in the local paper and ended up with a star .
10 Bovelander wears the unofficial tag of being the sport 's top penalty corner exponent — no goalkeeper likes to face his thunderous shots — but in the game between Ireland and Holland earlier this month , it was van der Honoret who took the strikes and ended up with a hat-trick .
11 She was out with a group of girls , you were with your friends , and you all had a happy evening together and ended up at a disco .
12 I got up and went for a walk and ended up at the Bunker .
13 It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why .
14 In July he was thrown out of his hostel and ended up at the Jews ’ Temporary Shelter in the East End .
15 This resulted in farce : ‘ I have never forgotten seeing footage of a British manager which began on his moccasined feet , wafted over his monogrammed door mat , and ended up opposite the sofa on which lounged five of his charges , scowling greasily ’ .
16 It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside .
17 The Austin Metro veered off the road , went across an embankment and ended up in a field , having ploughed through a fence and hedgerow .
18 Five months pregnant with her fifth child , Emecheta fled and ended up in a council block for problem families , which became the setting for In The Ditch .
19 A woman driver was taken to Hartlepool General Hospital for a check-up yesterday after her Ford Escort left the southbound carriageway of the A19 near Elwick and ended up in a ditch .
20 It was a narrow squeak for Errol , for had Newry lost to Queen 's a fortnight ago and ended up in a relegation decider against the students , the ban would have come into immediate effect .
21 I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing .
22 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 .
23 I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth .
24 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door .
28 ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said .
29 ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree .
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