Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] find dead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day the news was all over Fontanellato that the woman had been found dead with a rope round her neck . |
| 2 | She wanted details about Pascoe but he offered only that the man had been found dead at home . |
| 3 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 4 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 5 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 6 | After all , several had been found dead in his house . |
| 7 | Edwin Garland had been found dead by his niece at two o'clock on the Saturday . |