Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 2 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 3 | Relations between the Thai and Myanman armies were especially close and reportedly extended to co-operation in business dealings and in the suppression of ethnic insurgency along their common border . |
| 4 | The whole company was arrested and held and then transferred to gaol in London , where Nayler was tried . |
| 5 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 6 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 7 | Often such matters have never been previously talked about and instead left to fester in bad relationships , complaining , negative attitudes and lack of drive . |
| 8 | Marie-Helène Joiret , a council member in Flémalle , who was with Cools , was shot in the abdomen and subsequently taken to hospital in a serious condition . |
| 9 | We felt , however , that coronal imaging might give more detailed information regarding the anatomical detail of the antropyloric region and therefore attempted to image in the coronal plane using reorientation of the nuclear magnetic resonance signals by signal processing methods . |