Example sentences of "[adv] ended in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The contest also ended in disaster for 12 men from Ford Open Prison , Sussex . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another attempt by a Gehlen agent called Christopher Komarek to lay a similar cable across the Jungfern Lake also ended in failure . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It so nearly ended in tragedy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During this brief interregnum , it pleased Zacco to call Nicholas to St Hilarion for disputatious council meetings which occasionally ended in concord . |