The two rooms had apparently been thoroughly ransacked.
A search of the cottage revealed the fact that it had been ransacked thoroughly by the assassin.
A few weeks later their home was broken into and thoroughly ransacked.
Order was gone, now, for this place had also been thoroughly ransacked.
Now that years of legal entanglements have ended, the Beatles archives are being thoroughly ransacked.
The zoo, particularly John Paul's sanctuary, was ransacked thoroughly.
She finds him gone and the apartment so thoroughly ransacked that holes have been punched through the walls.
Because the house had been so thoroughly ransacked - the perpetrators even looked under the eaves - investigators immediately suspected that drugs were somehow involved.
Tissue from the shopping bags was strewn all around the room, and the bags themselves had been thoroughly ransacked.
The former police headquarters has been thoroughly ransacked.