Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an incident linked by unofficial Estonian sources to the crackdown in Latvia and Lithuania , two senior Swedish trade union officials were found murdered in Tallinn on Jan. 24 . |
| 2 | The tyre warehouse burned down on bonfire night last year but hundreds of tyres were left buried under rubble on the site . |
| 3 | The 21-year-old 's half-dressed body was found covered in blood on a nature reserve after she told her boyfriend their relationship was over . |
| 4 | Professor Hitoshi Igarashi , the Japanese translator of Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie 's controversial novel The Satanic Verses , was found stabbed to death on July 12 on the campus of Tsukaba University in Mito , outside Tokyo . |
| 5 | The schoolgirl , who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 6 | The schoolgirl who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 7 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |