Example sentences of "ended up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ended up as a departmental head with two other jobs besides . |
| 2 | Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game , but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end . |
| 3 | During the Restoration he had regained the lands he had lost when the king was defeated , and ended up as a Vice-Admiral of the Fleet . |
| 4 | It usually ended up as a slow jog with a buck thrown in for good measure . |
| 5 | It probably dates back to The Beatles when Richard Starkey became Ringo the millionaire and Pete Best kept his real name and ended up as a civil servant . |
| 6 | She then tried a government training course in shorthand and typing but , lacking confidence , ended up as a filing clerk . |
| 7 | ‘ My contribution ended up as a very defined , but audible sound . |
| 8 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |
| 9 | Later sources had it that the king was murdered : Geoffrey le Baker , writing thirty years after the event , provides the vivid details of the brutal and degrading way in which he is supposed to have met his death , but Dr Cuttino and Dr Lyman have recently suggested that the story of his escape to Ireland and then via France to Cologne where he ended up as a hermit may not be wholly imaginary . |
| 10 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 11 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
| 12 | The Single European Act started as a grandiose design and ended up as a workmanlike blueprint for a free market . |
| 13 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 14 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 15 | ‘ She ended up as a Lady . |
| 16 | My earlier studies of fish and birds were now extended to mammals and I ended up as the curator of the largest collection of mammalian species in the world — at the London Zoo . |
| 17 | That was the design I finally gave to Shawcraft as a construction drawing which ended up as the Dalek . |
| 18 | And he ended up as the port captain for Cunard in New York . |
| 19 | Jim was also unbeaten in Scotland in all other events and as a result ended up as the official No 1 in Scotland . |
| 20 | Mireille eventually met Rob Andrew , the Lions captain , and he too ended up with a bouquet , which he was still wondering how to dispose of as his players began to line up . |
| 21 | Evans is convinced it ended up with a better dealer than it started with , and has £2m of cash to play with . |
| 22 | The Reverend Whickens ended up with a smart little house whose roof was as high as that of St Peter 's and which comprised a hall , a small parlour and a large parlour , a study , kitchen , dairy and brewhouse , four bedchambers and two small rooms in the garret . |
| 23 | I ended up with a lot of material on the pressures , conflicts and obsessions side ; and not nearly as much about the pleasures , the fun and creativity of putting looks together , the sensual side to feeling good in what you are wearing , the pleasure of dressing up , or challenging people by dressing down . |
| 24 | Someone somewhere , however , changed the order for the Portakabin and we ended up with a 15ft ( 4.5m ) one . |
| 25 | Hakim , left behind in Frankfurt in October to arrange some sort of deal , ended up with a promise of 1 ½ ( sic ) hostages in exchange for 1,500 TOWs and pressure for the release of 17 terrorists held in Kuwait . |
| 26 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 27 | Everyone knows of someone who is said to have paid £500 for a horse advertised in the local paper and ended up with a star . |
| 28 | At first I had the strings about an inch off the fingerboard , but I slowly started filing down the nut until I ended up with a lower action . |
| 29 | There was slight muddying of some tones , and the bass end could be made so heavy that it wiped out the rest of the mix , but with some careful EQ'ing during mixdown I ended up with a result which would be more than acceptable as a demo tape . |
| 30 | Flat-top Ekos did abound at the bottom of the market , but they all ended up with a Dulux psychedelic front and a magnetic pickup across the soundhole . |