Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the devastating fungus Cordyceps militaris nearly fills its host 's body cavity with fungal tissue , absorbing nutrients from the rich haemolymph ( the body fluid of the insect ) , literally starving the hapless insect to death from within . |
| 2 | I just love that guitar to death . |
| 3 | Our analysis was based on internal comparisons , and selection bias would be introduced only if the relation of head circumference and ponderal index to death from cardiovascular disease differed in those who were or were not traced . |
| 4 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 5 | By Jaysus , they run to the top and stabbed the old fella to death . |
| 6 | Its final decline was brought about by a change in the public attitude to death . |
| 7 | Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applauded as he kicked a young would-be pickpocket to death . |
| 8 | A BATTERED wife who burned her brutal husband to death was freed from jail yesterday . |
| 9 | At the end of March , the Crown Prince and his Chief-of-Staff , von Knobelsdorf , were still dedicated to the capture of Verdun , come what may ; equally , Falkenhayn was still true ( in his indecisive fashion ) to his aim of bleeding the French Army to death at Verdun , regardless of whether or not the city fell in the process . |
| 10 | Do n't do n't put this man to death ! |
| 11 | The trial of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in the doorway of his home has been put back until later in the week . |
| 12 | Wade John Frankum , 33 , hacked a 15 year-old girl to death with a machete before rampaging through the shopping complex firing randomly at bystanders . |
| 13 | Medved regards A Clockwork Orange , Stanley Kubrick 's ultra-violent 1971 film as ‘ superb , challenging and highly original ’ , while taking a swipe at A Fish Called Wanda because of its irreverent attitude to death . |
| 14 | Do n't do what David 's mother and father and bloody freeze to death . |
| 15 | A TEARFUL Gwent schoolboy has been left heartbroken by thugs who tortured his pet Siamese cat to death . |
| 16 | In all of these patients , recurrent HBV was a major contributing factor to death , sometimes complicated by other infections or reoperation . |
| 17 | A TEENAGE mother yesterday vowed to stand by the pot-smoking body-builder who viciously battered her tiny baby to death . |
| 18 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 19 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne bludgeoned his sleeping brother to death with a mallet in a row over girls , a court heard yesterday . |
| 20 | During the last match , the Husayn twins had nearly beaten the Bosnian refugee to death with the stumps after he had refused to accept a boundary decision . |
| 21 | When this care of old people is short-lived , the inevitable prelude to death , it is accepted as natural . |
| 22 | Cardiovascular complications in three , respiratory complications in two , and postoperative bleeding in one patient lead to death in six patients during the postoperative period in hospital ( hospital mortality 6% ) . |
| 23 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 24 | Furthermore , of those explanations that incorporate biotic and microenvironmental as well as disturbance effects , the most balanced account is that of Grubb , who used the term ‘ regeneration niche ’ to cover all the factors that affect a plant during its career from fertilized egg to death . |
| 25 | In 1987 , 18,000 turkeys trampled each other to death in Corning , California , after a farmer 's tractor blew a tyre within earshot . |
| 26 | When yu loving each other to death |
| 27 | At high intensities they will even remove broods from cells or sting each other to death . |
| 28 | ROS : Perhaps they 've all trampled each other to death in the rush … |
| 29 | I think we should all start sentencing each other to death . |
| 30 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |