Example sentences of "was found [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A £10,000 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth stolen from a driveway in Brook Meadow , Sible Hedingham , was found damaged in Cambridgeshire after being used in a burglary in that county . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 4 | Durham County Coun. Derek Mason , a former director of the club , said the table was found covered in paint pots and grime in a lock-up shed underneath the Feethams west stand by a director , Mr Brian Hadley of Middleton St. George , in the mid 1970s . |
| 5 | Four-times-wed Carol Whittington , 45 , was found stabbed to death at the home of her third husband , Peter Sayles , 39 . |
| 6 | Shippey , 47 , was found stabbed to death in his burning car near Merstham last December . |
| 7 | A MAN was found stabbed to death yesterday after an all-night party to celebrate his engagement . |
| 8 | The Reuters correspondent in Algeria , Philip Shehadi , was found stabbed to death in his Algiers home on March 1 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fereydun Farokhzad , 48 , a singer , poet and political dissident who had lived in exile since the establishment of Islamic government in Iran in 1979 , was found stabbed to death at his home in Bonn , Germany , on Aug. 8 . |
| 11 | Mr Miles was found stabbed to death in the back garden of the home in Newtown that he shared with his parents and one of his brothers . |
| 12 | Kim Brockwell was found stabbed to death outside her flat in the city , but when the trial began today the charge was reduced to manslaughter . |
| 13 | 24 year old Kim Brockwell was found stabbed to death in the stairway of her flat in the fashionable Latin quarter of Paris in 1990 . |
| 14 | Mr Miles , who was twenty nine , was found stabbed to death in the garden of his home near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire in March . |
| 15 | Twenty-nine year old Isadore Johnson was found stabbed to death in the back garden of a house the day after the party in August last year . |
| 16 | Michael Drury was found stabbed to death at his home in Clipstone Field Place at Ecton Brook in Northampton nine days ago . |
| 17 | The schoolgirl , who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 18 | The schoolgirl who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 19 | Businesswoman Penny was found stabbed in her car in June 91 . |
| 20 | Detectives have been stopping and questioning drivers about the murder of a man who was found stabbed in his garden . |
| 21 | Police are expected to charge a father with attempted murder after his fifteen month old son was found stabbed in his cot . |
| 22 | Experimentally ( Fig. 3 b ) , this latter prediction was found to hold for NO ( 5-fold less ) and ClO ( 3-fold less ; SCN - was not tested ) . |
| 23 | The dazed animal was found wandering on a motorway slip road . |
| 24 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 25 | When she was found wandering in a nearby allotment eight weeks ago Teka was painfully thin , bald and her paws were bleeding . |
| 26 | Several hours later Pask was found wandering in the University grounds wearing a floral skirt and bathing costume taken from his victim 's room . |
| 27 | The child , with curly blonde hair , was found wandering in the hospital 's maternity unit on Wednesday night . |
| 28 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 29 | I was found wandering by Mr Ozzy Dunk , a salesman for Golden Touch Sunbed Centres . |
| 30 | The toddler , aged about two , was found wandering inside the maternity unit of Arrowe Park Hospital , Wirral , with a heartbreaking note pleading for ‘ a new mummy ’ to be found for her . |