Example sentences of "ended [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 4 | Eventually we ended up in the basement . |
| 5 | If he was lucky and the bird ended up in the net , the Birdman would extract it and , with a deft flick , break its neck before adding it to others in a canvas bag carried round his waist . |
| 6 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 7 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 8 | We ended up in the bar opposite the gates of the camp . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 11 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 12 | Almost all schools ended up in the black in the first year . |
| 13 | They became destitute — ended up in the workhouse . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , many did not reach this country , the United States , Canada or any other safe country but ended up in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Dachau because they were denied the right to asylum . |
| 17 | There are plenty of eye witnesses to testify to the fact that the Koenigs Collection of 526 Old Master drawings ended up in the Pushkin Museum of Art , Moscow , after being removed from Schloss Pillnitz near Berlin at the end of the war . |
| 18 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 19 | For gone are the days when the used plastic cups ended up in the dustbin . |
| 20 | Riddick Bowe 's World Boxing Council belt ended up in the trash can , Mike Tyson ended up in the can , and Lennox Lewis became Britain 's first world heavyweight champion without even hitting anyone . |
| 21 | I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth . |
| 22 | Each year the seasons would move slowly back through the calendar until Christmas ended up in the summer . |
| 23 | They ended up in the George hotel , by then , the court heard , Mr pollard and his friends had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager each . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In modern times there is only one celebrated instance of a subject 's displeasure at an artist 's likeness : that of Sir Winston Churchill with his portrait by Graham Sutherland which , tragically , ended up in the fireplace . |
| 26 | This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | He ended up in the bath which , in this house , is actually in the bathroom . ’ |
| 29 | Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |