Example sentences of "ends up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 2 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 3 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | So the needle ends up with the original stitch and a loop of yarn on it . |
| 5 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 6 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |