Example sentences of "end [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his want of pleasure , in his obvious anxiety , he might have opened a bank statement ending deeply in the red . |
| 2 | A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle . |
| 3 | With a sharp pang of defeat , he noticed Benny dive headlong through the weakened window , ending up in the water below with a huge splash . |
| 4 | Connections of Laurel Queen , Walking The Plank and Buzzards Bellbuoy the trio to sneak in at the bottom of the race will have to send them a percentage if ending up in the money . |
| 5 | Or the black Broadway actor who always fears ending up in the gutter . |
| 6 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 7 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 8 | So should not the law be changed immediately to prevent the likes of Dr Cox ending up in the dock ? |
| 9 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 10 | This sequence of events can be demonstrated diagrammatically in a simplified form , as in Figure 28. l , which shows how each element is linked to form a continuous process ending either in the achievement of targets or the modification of plans as a result of feedback ( see Figure 28.2 ) . |
| 11 | The evening ends early in the evening at the Holiday Inn Civic Centre where you will stay for three nights . |
| 12 | Again , this will particularly hit partners in firms with year ends early in the tax year . |
| 13 | Only about 20 per cent of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas in either process , so carbonisation is not an efficient method for producing a carbon-based gas from coal . |
| 14 | The process is very efficient and almost all of the carbon in the coal ends up in the gas . |
| 15 | The vast majority of written material sent to the media ends up in the waste-bin — some of it unread ; this despite modern training in PR and the many courses which are now available . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And if it ends up in the scrap bin , we simply write it off to experience , and start again . |
| 18 | The calyx ( or joined calyces ) then continue into a stalk or pedunculus of nerve fibres which ends deep in the brain by a complicated root system composed of a recurrent alpha-lobe , a beta-lobe and sometimes even a third gamma-lobe . |
| 19 | The north shore of Loch Arkaig rises steadily to an indistinct range of high country beyond which is Glen Garry ; this range ends abruptly in the east where steep slopes descend to Loch Lochy in the Great Glen . |
| 20 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 21 | I 've seen better men than you think they could handle the drink and end up in the gutter with a bottle of the fortified wine . ’ |
| 22 | ( I suspect it 's his way of getting some vegetables down me considering the number of soft , plump leaves that end up in the bottom of my cup when the pot gets to be half full of the things . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Amphibians , crustaceans and fish that live in such conditions have to evolve some method of holding on if they are not to be swept away and end up in the sea . |
| 25 | Many end up in the camp hospital . |
| 26 | You 'll need to get agreement from everyone that if they end up in the minority they will bide by the majority decision . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Because their reading skills are poor too , many reports end up in the waste bin — which is a better place for them than the filing cabinet . |
| 30 | fictitious site of the shooting picnic at which Pickwick drinks too much punch and end up in the pound . |