Example sentences of "[adv] ended [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Did they actually , they thought then it just ended like drop off .
2 Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment .
3 THE £400,000 launch of a professional pool circus yesterday ended in farce when an angry shopkeeper burst in to take the jackets off the backs of the leading players .
4 In Vietnam the US-supported regime in the south was defeated in 1975 , following an agreement in Paris in 1973 which formally ended outside involvement in the longstanding conflict with the communist-ruled north .
5 The contest also ended in disaster for 12 men from Ford Open Prison , Sussex .
6 The author worked alongside Maxwell for many years and his career at the Daily Mirror also ended in disgrace with his sacking , soon after the publishers death .
7 Another attempt by a Gehlen agent called Christopher Komarek to lay a similar cable across the Jungfern Lake also ended in failure .
8 A further faculty acquired in 1983 to examine Temperance Brown 's vault at Steane , Northamptonshire , also ended in failure , the coffin having disintegrated and she having ‘ gone to earth ’ .
9 It so nearly ended in tragedy .
10 She was the only midwife in our district and if the women could n't afford her the neighbours helped , a practice which often ended in tragedy .
11 A constitutional convention was elected in May 1975 to try to agree on a new form of government but it too ended in failure , leaving the province under direct rule from Whitehall , through the Northern Ireland Office and the continued presence of the army .
12 During this brief interregnum , it pleased Zacco to call Nicholas to St Hilarion for disputatious council meetings which occasionally ended in concord .
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