Example sentences of "end up in the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts .
2 I 'm included in the squad , but i end up in the terraces in every game .
3 A local spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) commented that " there is no such thing as selective trapping because all sorts of protected birds end up in the nets and die before they can be released " .
4 Descriptions of sea water tend , however lavishly written , to blow themselves out and end up in the doldrums .
5 How do the animals end up in the zoos ?
6 He added : ‘ I knew this would end up in the papers sooner or later . ’
7 ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place .
8 Fear that information will end up in the hands of competitors .
9 Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place .
10 When a group of anti-embargo Americans organised a flotilla of 13 boats carrying aid to church organisations in Cuba from the Florida Keys on April 24th , right-wing groups were convinced that the stuff would end up in the hands of Mr Castro and the armed forces .
11 The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants .
12 I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want .
13 The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters .
14 This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’
15 ‘ Colin Harvey bought Mike Newell for the start of my second season and I ended up in the reserves , with all the publicity and pressure that brought .
16 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
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