Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] find [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Constable David Hemes told the hearing that Mr Weatherstone had been found hanging with a belt round his neck . |
| 2 | A long-serving backbencher ( and amateur detective who had recently helped to unmask the murderer of a woman MP whose body had been found hanging in a House of Commons lift ) , he sat uncomfortably at the back of the hall . |
| 3 | Magistrates at Bootle decided that the dog should be released from RSPCA kennels and returned to her owners in Lydiate , Merseyside , despite the fact that she had been found wandering outside her home without a muzzle . |
| 4 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 5 | Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt . |
| 6 | Seven months later Elise 's car , with her inside , had been found crumpled against a tree . |
| 7 | Grandma had been found floating in the stream at the bottom of the garden — that lovely little stream , so sparkling and full of life . |
| 8 | Sure enough , it was one I had ringed less than 24 hours previously , and it had been found drowned in a bucket of custard ! |
| 9 | Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface . |
| 10 | He said Mr Hargreaves 's bicycle had been found chained to a sign at the start of a trail , which winds its way through thick forest to the vast Mendenall glacier , just north of Juneau in south east Alaska . |
| 11 | It was reported on Jan. 3 that Hegumen Lazar ( Viyacheslav Solnyshko ) , a member of the Moscow Patriarchate 's commission investigating the September 1990 murder of radical Russian Orthodox priest Fr Aleksandr Men , had been found murdered in his Moscow flat . |
| 12 | Bissell 's body had been found lying on a pile of rubbish , face down . |
| 13 | She had been found lying on her back , hands folded , naked . |
| 14 | He had come aboard at Kenora , he said , because the body of a groom from this train called Ricky had been found lying beside the railway lines near Thunder Bay . |