Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the body " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of my patrols to the end of Putney Bridge I found the body of an elderly woman , almost at the end of her life . |
| 2 | I found the body . ’ |
| 3 | A week afterwards , I was out poaching very near the place and I found the body of a small lap dog . |
| 4 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I found the body . |
| 5 | When I moved the body , I found a cheque book of yours . ’ |
| 6 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 7 | And the Pergolese largo enhancing the enchanted dusk with sparse fluidity , unearthly serenity , When I behold the body … |
| 8 | I joined the body to the wires from my machine . |
| 9 | Well they do so , I mean , I know , I know the body shape is expensive to make because of the number of different panels |
| 10 | ‘ At approximately 15.25 , in company with Maurice Glynn , I discovered the body of the deceased lying in a contorted position … ’ |
| 11 | With the last of the petrol I covered the body of the catapult and the used-up bottle of the ‘ thrower where they lay on the sand and set fire to them . |
| 12 | I examined the body again , a few moments ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’ |
| 14 | I took it when I examined the body and , taken with the rigor which was almost fully established then , I 'd say it was unlikely that he was alive much after nine p.m . |
| 15 | How can I tell you what I felt when I saw the body ? |
| 16 | ‘ Do you think that was where I saw the body ? |
| 17 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 18 | " Let's have him out , " I gasped , and as the young man pulled on the forelegs I supported the body , which slid and toppled on to the tarmac with a horrible limpness . |
| 19 | Only when I had the body in my hand did see it was a goldcrest . |
| 20 | Elizabeth 's famous Armada speech — ‘ I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman , but I have the heart of a king and a king of England too ’ — and Mary 's much-quoted desire to live the life of a soldier , wearing a Glasgow buckler and sleeping under the stars , are testimony to one ( it is perhaps worth adding that the context for Elizabeth was fighting Spain , for Mary fighting her half-brother ) . |
| 21 | I HAVE the body of a young girl . |
| 22 | Labour MP Clive Soley on the libel laws I HAVE the body of a young girl . |
| 23 | The margin between doses which destroy only malignant cells and those which damage healthy cells is very small , and the cure of a cancer depends on removing or killing all the malignant cells which elude the body 's own control . |
| 24 | The gentle deep massaging fingers of the BodyToner Plus stimulate the blood supply which encourages the body 's lymph drainage system to work more efficiently so ridding the body of toxins that cause cellulite . |
| 25 | The neck is a single piece of rock maple , which joins the body by means of a very understated four bolt affair . |
| 26 | However , the animal figures which decorate the body of the vessel are from a genuine figurine mould and therefore in perfect Zapotec style . |
| 27 | Liposuction is a minor surgical procedure which reshapes the body by the removal of stubborn fat from problem areas . |
| 28 | When scanner testing is conducted the patient is placed inside a large magnetic field which causes the body 's hydrogen atoms to rotate . |
| 29 | When scanner testing is conducted the patient is placed inside a large magnetic field which causes the body 's hydrogen atoms to rotate . |
| 30 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |