It lay close beside the body, near what little was left of the head.

I had to lie on the floor beside the first officer's body.

He looked for a gun, beside or beneath the body.

That frantic need kept her beside his dead body when she wanted nothing so much as to run for home.

A note found beside his body read "One down, two to go."

She was sitting beside his body in shock when the police arrived.

John crouched beside the body of the boy he'd killed.

He knelt beside the body of a child not more than four.

"Stand right beside the body, then look toward the ceiling."

He is forced to leave it beside the body and hope no one will notice.