Example sentences of "it ended [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 2 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 3 | Yorick screamed again — the high wail lasted for several seconds before it ended with a sharp report . |
| 4 | It ended with a few paragraphs I 'll quote : |
| 5 | Lorton followed the lane for another half mile , until it ended in a gravelled car park maintained by the National Trust . |
| 6 | It ended in a great row . |
| 7 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 8 | It ended in a vitriolic public dispute between Giardini and his agent Gabriele Leone , and in a Chancery lawsuit involving the same parties and other members of the company . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd never have guessed , ’ she quipped , and it ended in a raucous cough . |
| 10 | It ended in a stormy divorce after three years when the first Mrs Smith walked out , leaving the then 4-year-old Andrew locked in a wardrobe . |
| 11 | It ended in a stormy divorce after three years when the first Mrs Smith walked out leaving the then 4-year-old Andrew locked in a wardrobe . |
| 12 | It ended in a choking splutter as Sir Thomas , following Nancy 's tragic end , collapsed to his knees , clutching at and dragging over the lectern , and then falling to the floor where he lay as insensible as Nancy herself . |