Example sentences of "[was/were] found [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time the mechanic in charge , a well known character with a police record , had pushed his luck too far , and several illegal immigrants were found hiding in the covered power boat by our shore controls . |
| 2 | Laura Smith , four , and her sister Emma , two , were found huddled in the living room after the fireball ripped through their home . |
| 3 | In one case parietal cells were found to extend to the pylorus , in two they extended through 20 and 22% of the antrum respectively , and in the remaining two infant specimens no parietal cells were found in the antrum . |
| 4 | Josie and Margaret Clarke were found butchered in the bedroom of their new home , next door to the bar they ran in St Mary . |
| 5 | Problems like overcrowded home conditions or a husband 's alcoholism , which had been going on for at least two years and which were rated as major difficulties ( 1–3 on a 6-point scale of severity ) , were found to occur in the lives of a great many more psychiatric cases than normal women . |
| 6 | That same evening , their corpses — minus their shoes and socks — were found lying on the beach at Ramlet al-Baida by the Beirut station manager of British Airways . |
| 7 | Gabriel-Ernest 's clothes were found lying in the road . |
| 8 | The effects of this training were found to generalize to the texture cue in experimental subjects , who tended to avoid contact with that particular flooring whereas control subject showed something of a liking for it . |
| 9 | Before the game started , 32 shotgun cartridges were found buried under the pitch . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards , a number of bodies were found buried on the premises , in the garden , in an alcove behind the kitchen , and under the sitting-room floorboards . |
| 11 | At one point , it seemed the Middlesbrough game might not go ahead because fire had badly damaged a stand and shotgun cartridges were found buried in the pitch . |
| 12 | They were clearly not ‘ drifters ’ , as they were found planted on the sea bottom in the port 's approach channel . |
| 13 | When they broke down the door the remains of her body were found scattered over the floor . |
| 14 | Several fine enamelled objects were found scattered on the floor , either representing part of his stock or else intended for scrap . |
| 15 | Like much of France , vineyards were found scattered throughout the region but none of the eight farms visited grew any grapes . |
| 16 | During this restoration work some traces of earlier Norman work were found embedded in the walls of the aisles , also remains of the rood screen . |
| 17 | Bullets ‘ danced off the road ’ and nine were found embedded in the police car . |
| 18 | Four bags of toxic waste which were found abandoned on the Oxford ring road have been handed back to the company that lost them . |
| 19 | Several hours later Pask was found wandering in the University grounds wearing a floral skirt and bathing costume taken from his victim 's room . |
| 20 | The child , with curly blonde hair , was found wandering in the hospital 's maternity unit on Wednesday night . |
| 21 | I mean one lady was found wandering in the street ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The extent of these differences was found to correlate with the extent of the differences between their natural and artificially enforced habitats . |
| 24 | Mrs Stallard nursed George back to health after he was found injured on the nearby headland of Great Orme . |
| 25 | ABOVE LEFT This is a tawny owl that was found injured by the side of the road and brought to my neighbour , Maureen Edwards , for help . |
| 26 | He was found garrotted in the church of St. Giles some seven days ago . ’ |
| 27 | Is this the man who took the little orphaned son of the brigand Dhoondiah Waugh into his household after he was found hiding on the battlefield amongst the baggage of his defeated father ? |
| 28 | Michael Smith was found slumped over the wheel of his blood-spattered Mercedes with a torn up photograph of Andria Horton on the seat beside him . |
| 29 | Mr Lavender , an insurance agent who was studying for a master 's degree , was found slumped on the ground in Battersea High Street , South London , by a group of youngsters . |
| 30 | The 46-year-old commodity broker who worked for M16 and the CIA for nearly 10 years was found slumped in the family 's four-track safari vehicle 100 miles from civilisation . |