1.   The thin duvet lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.

2.   Swinging her legs out of bed, she hunted around for her nightshirt, flung in a crumpled heap on the carpet, then studied the piece of paper.

3.   I quietly let myself out of the flat and ran down the stairs coming too quickly upon a crumpled heap hunched at the bottom.

4.   In it, a crumpled heap of worn rubberized burlap piled in a corner is a body metaphor that can lend itself to a number of interpretations.

5.   They will come to look on beating you up and leaving you in a crumpled heap on the playground as something that was actually a cry for help.

6.   With its front section torn away, exposing the cockpit, the Cessna lay in a crumpled heap in an area near airport hangars.

7.   The cable car, which lay in a crumpled heap, remained attached to a third cable, designed to moved the car up and down the lift.

8.   The father lays on top of his dead child, the mother is a crumpled heap nearby.

9.   Albert then twice accused Cantona of reckless tackles, before leading the storm of protests after a late tackle by the Frenchman left Peter Beardsley in a crumpled heap.

10.   The mangled wreckage of the car which the suicide bomber rammed into the bus, setting off a massive explosion, was also lying in a crumpled heap nearby.