Example sentences of "to end [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back . |
| 2 | He had n't expected a trip down to his daughter 's for lunch to end up in the middle of Exmoor . |
| 3 | I mean , people like me are the sort he expects to end up in the nick , not blokes he 'd invite to one of his do 's . |
| 4 | He had looked at his wife 's unguarded face and forgotten for a moment that life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall , your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand . |
| 5 | But they 're , they 're the gov they 're going to end up in the government . |
| 6 | Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ . |
| 7 | Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers . |
| 8 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 9 | If it had , they were liable to end up in the Husayn twins ' pockets . |
| 10 | Suppose it happened to bias meiosis in such a way that it , the mutant gene itself , was more likely than its allelic partner to end up in the egg . |
| 11 | We do n't want to end up in the beer tent at three o'clock ’ — DICK BEST ( England coach ) about the Selkirk Sevens , where his seven lost in the quarter-finals to Gala . |
| 12 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
| 13 | ‘ If I were you , James , I would n't call these people niggers — unless , of course , you want to end up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital . ’ |