Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange as it may sound , compulsive shoppers very often do n't even wear their look — in contrast , of course , to the average shopper who flaunts a new frock or jumper to death . |
| 2 | It would discuss specifically religious views on the purpose of life and attitudes to death . |
| 3 | ‘ We are not switching off heating to freeze staff and customers to death . ’ |
| 4 | The Kinzoku Bat Murderer , for instance , bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a baseball bat in the early Eighties . |
| 5 | After trial and condemnation to death Maury was taken to be guillotined in front of a large crowd . |
| 6 | Thus Matins at daybreak remembers the betrayal of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane ; Prime is connected with the trial before Pilate and false accusation ; Tierce with the crowning with thorns and condemnation to death ; Sext ( midday ) with the Crucifixion ; None ( 3 p.m. ) with Christ 's death ; Evensong with the deposition ; and Compline with the entombment . |