Example sentences of "[adv] end [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only end up in the doghouse myself would n't I ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Four minutes later Hedman 's powerful shot was parried by Wood , but still ended up in the net . |
| 5 | Even the £25 pairs favoured by northern women often end up in the kitchen as chip fat or paint strainers , handy onion storers or to plug leaking pipes . |
| 6 | But when the Daily Mirror uncovered startling evidence of a shocking cocaine racket on the Queen 's doorstep we almost ended up in the dock ourselves . |
| 7 | Looked at all the usual things ; the cottages , the rectory and so on and , eventually ended up in the churchyard ; the one where Rupert Brooke is buried . |
| 8 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 9 | The SBD was shipped to Hawaii where it was refinished in a Navy camouflage paint scheme and reportedly used for at least one air-to-air session but the resulting footage never ended up in the film . |