Example sentences of "[pron] end [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’
2 This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven .
3 A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners .
4 A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland .
5 And so we end up in the paradox of a system which invokes the criterion of historical consciousness as a means for distinguishing the ‘ primitive ’ from the , civilized' but — contrary to its claim — is itself ahistorical .
6 We ended up in the bar opposite the gates of the camp .
7 We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage .
8 Eventually we ended up in the basement .
9 That would be totally wrong and totally undemocratic and heaven help us if we ended back in the situation where we had a lady in number ten Downing Street who waved the hand bag at all and sundry without any thought at all for the democratic situation
10 You 'll need to get agreement from everyone that if they end up in the minority they will bide by the majority decision .
11 A lot of players are being released by League clubs these days that would have been kept on before , so they end up in the Conference .
12 I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate .
13 Once they are removed , all that soil , like the fertilizer , has to go somewhere , and , often as not , it ends up in the watercourse , silting up the stream bed , eroding banks , and worsening flooding .
14 And if it ends up in the scrap bin , we simply write it off to experience , and start again .
15 He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent .
16 He ended up in the bath which , in this house , is actually in the bathroom . ’
17 They are wrong in their views of righteousness , supposing Jesus to be a sinner like themselves — and worse because he ended up in the place of cursing on a cross ( cf.
18 ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’
19 In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets .
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