Example sentences of "[noun] ended [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 2 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 3 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 4 | For gone are the days when the used plastic cups ended up in the dustbin . |
| 5 | According to IDC , only 3% of workstation kit ended up in the financial sector — which invests more heavily in high-end and on-line transaction processing multi-user Unix systems . |
| 6 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 7 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 8 | This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’ |
| 9 | The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters . |
| 10 | They were not met by the UK , which also granted itself invalid derogations , and the country ended up in the European Court ( see below ) . |
| 11 | Anything going through MEMO ended up in the American Embassy . |
| 12 | If he was lucky and the bird ended up in the net , the Birdman would extract it and , with a deft flick , break its neck before adding it to others in a canvas bag carried round his waist . |
| 13 | All the girls who were any sort of discipline problem and virtually all the older women ended up in the workroom . |
| 14 | There are plenty of eye witnesses to testify to the fact that the Koenigs Collection of 526 Old Master drawings ended up in the Pushkin Museum of Art , Moscow , after being removed from Schloss Pillnitz near Berlin at the end of the war . |
| 15 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 16 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 17 | Each year the seasons would move slowly back through the calendar until Christmas ended up in the summer . |