Example sentences of "body was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parliamentary Select Committee on Education saw a need for clarification and a more analytical approach , but the call for a national advisory body was rejected by the government . |
| 2 | Her upper body was secured to the table top , and her legs were swung upwards until her knees were jammed beside her ears . |
| 3 | ‘ If a body was placed in the water at that time , would it have been carried away by the tide ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To the best of my belief the body was placed in the water shortly after death but the possibility that there was an interval of several hours can not be totally excluded … |
| 5 | A statement from the harbour-master which confirmed the conversation he had had with Mary Penrose 's father : ‘ In my opinion , having in mind recent weather conditions , the finding of the body on the west side of Kernick Head makes it almost certain that the body was placed in the water further to the west , most likely in the neighbourhood of the old sewage outfall … ’ |
| 6 | During that winter , the body was renovated at the Blackpool Technical College by apprentices . |
| 7 | He disappeared from his yacht off the Canary Islands and his body was sighted in the water the next day . |
| 8 | When I found him his body was sprawled over the stool . ’ |
| 9 | There is no mourning for children ; by the next day the body was eaten by the hyenas . |
| 10 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 11 | His body was discovered on the city 's outskirts three days later . |
| 12 | The man 's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage . |
| 13 | The man 's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage . |
| 14 | Carol Clark 's body was discovered in the Sharpness canal , in Gloucestershire , just over a month ago . |
| 15 | His body was discovered in the front garden of a house just fifty yards from his own home in Kenmuir Avenue . |
| 16 | Her body was discovered in the wreckage . |
| 17 | Mrs Gilfoyle 's body was discovered in the early evening of Friday , June 4 , 1992 at the family home in Upton , Wirral , two weeks before she was due to give birth to her first child . |
| 18 | Denise 's body was discovered in the lounge above the pub at about 11.30am yesterday after staff had arrived to find the pub locked . |
| 19 | Police have appealed for help in tracing the last movements of Anthony Buck , 46 , of Bishopthorpe Road , York , whose body was discovered in the River Ouse at Selby on Wednesday evening . |
| 20 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |
| 21 | The body was made from the strong cotton bags that the flour came in , she worked some black fur for its hair , and stuffed it with straw or some old hay . |
| 22 | One or more drops of blood must have fallen or been spilt from the weapon before Harry fell and had then been smeared along the carpet as the body was dragged against the wall . |
| 23 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 24 | Whitsuntide was 17 May in 1030 , and as the saint 's body was raised during the following night , it would have entered Canterbury on 18 May . |
| 25 | Later I was questioned by a journalist as to how I would reply to those who spoke of lack of respect in the way Nigel 's body was handled during the twenty-four hours after his death . |
| 26 | Her body was lifted from the coffin and carried through the dusk across the open fields that then came up to the hospital , to Ferry Beach . |
| 27 | She did n't want to feel this way , did n't want to feel as though her body was burning in the hot fires of hell while her soul was dancing in heaven , but she was powerless to resist the erotic magic of the kiss . |
| 28 | Writing at the time of de-Stalinization in Russia , when the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party was in session , and Stalin 's body was evicted from the Mausoleum , Isaac Deutscher used the words ‘ The official , heavily edited and misleading reports of the Congress … ’ . |
| 29 | And he was , he had an unfortunate death , because he he he his body was buried in the little churchyard near to the village where he had been brought up , and he 'd no sooner been buried , than they decided to run a road through , or , erm , something , so his body had to be unearthed and moved somewhere else , and it was n't until nineteen sixteen , that the body erm , was taken out and was taken to Paris , and restored in the er , where so many other famous people erm , do have their tombs and their remembrances . |
| 30 | It was into this barrow , under cover of the night , at about seven p.m. , that the body was put , covered with plastic sacks , themselves in turn covered with a fair sprinkling of autumn leaves , before being wheeled across the low wooden bridge there , across a well-worn path through the field , and across to the swiftly flowing current of the River Cherwell , where unceremoniously the body was tipped into the water . |