Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] to death [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 2 | The family , mother , father and their 16 year old son were found battered to death at their home in Upper Ridings , Beckonsfield . |
| 3 | The bodies of a couple and their teenage son were found battered to death in their Beckonsfield home . |
| 4 | The bodies of a couple and their teenage son were found battered to death in their Beckonsfield home earlier today . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The schoolgirl , who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 8 | The schoolgirl who was from Rochdale , Greater Manchester , was found stabbed to death on a desolate Pennine moor . |
| 9 | Four-times-wed Carol Whittington , 45 , was found stabbed to death at the home of her third husband , Peter Sayles , 39 . |
| 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 | Michael Drury was found stabbed to death at his home in Clipstone Field Place at Ecton Brook in Northampton nine days ago . |
| 12 | Shippey , 47 , was found stabbed to death in his burning car near Merstham last December . |
| 13 | The Reuters correspondent in Algeria , Philip Shehadi , was found stabbed to death in his Algiers home on March 1 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr Miles , who was twenty nine , was found stabbed to death in the garden of his home near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire in March . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Also in the series are An Uncommon Murder , which tells how an East End Jewish refugee was found battered to death on Clapham Common , and the story of Louise Masset , the first woman to be hanged this century after she was accused of killing her young son . |
| 19 | POLICE are hunting the killer of a drugs centre counsellor who was found battered to death at her office in Worcester . |
| 20 | A LONELY bachelor , who was the victim of a vicious hate campaign , was found battered to death in his flat . |
| 21 | Bachelor Brian Claydon , 59 , was found beaten to death in a lavatory at Nottingham station with the glue for his toupee in a bag by his side . |
| 22 | Six months after a seventy year old man was found beaten to death in his home , police say they 've made an important breakthrough . |
| 23 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 24 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 25 | A warrant for the missing earl 's arrest was issued after the nanny , Sandra Rivett , was found bludgeoned to death in the basement of the family 's home in London 's Belgravia in 1974 . |
| 26 | Police questioned him about 2 unsolved murders ; 43 year old Anorexic Carmel Gamble was found bludgeoned to death in her cottage in Stroud in 1989 . |