Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We ended up in the bar opposite the gates of the camp . |
| 5 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 6 | Eventually we ended up in the basement . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | You 'll need to get agreement from everyone that if they end up in the minority they will bide by the majority decision . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And if it ends up in the scrap bin , we simply write it off to experience , and start again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He ended up in the bath which , in this house , is actually in the bathroom . ’ |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |