Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] death " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 2 | A YOUNG mum was brutally knifed to death just moments after taking her five year-old daughter to school yesterday . |
| 3 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
| 4 | George came in looking like death . |
| 5 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
| 6 | ‘ You said Nicola was brutally stabbed to death , Superintendent . |
| 7 | A problem somewhat done to death : |
| 8 | As Orton noted , Ken told a lot of stories about people who committed suicide — and constantly talked about death , but in a funny way . |
| 9 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 10 | Of their long list of successes the most recent and most famous was the arrest , conviction and execution of two thugs , Browne and Kennedy , who had heartlessly blasted to death an Essex police constable named Gutteridge . |
| 11 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 12 | A Hungarian , Ms Erszebet Varga , who returned from Timisoara on Monday , told Hungarian television that on Sunday pregnant women taking part in the demonstration approached the bayonet wielding soldiers and , pointing to their swollen bellies , demanded that the unborn children be killed immediately as they would only starve to death when they were born . |
| 13 | One jerk , one shudder , one small loss of control and it would spill over into a chaos so terrible that it could only end in death . |
| 14 | Leonie Gadd was 20 when she died … she literally starved to death . |
| 15 | Somehow , we drew strength from each other , enough to stave off death for a little while longer . |
| 16 | The profit from mining was so immense that owners could afford to treat slaves their only major capital investment — as expendable ; the treatment of slaves in these mines was brutal in the extreme , and many were literally worked to death . |
| 17 | But the Ragdoll , lacking these responses , could be literally loved to death by unthinking children . |
| 18 | Mozart was by no means the first freelance composer to die in financial difficulties in the days before copyright law and performance rights afforded the artist some protection : 60 years later the German composer Gustav Lortzing literally starved to death after having to sell his hugely successful operas to publishers for a pitifully inadequate outright fee , which denied him any further revenue . |
| 19 | The poison preys upon the vitals and is only extinguished by death or , by as fatal a cure , the accomplishment of its own desires . |
| 20 | Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces . |
| 21 | Eventually , if Jean-Claude wished to go on living with death and the dead he would have to do so alone . |
| 22 | Hypothermia is the cooling of your whole body which can eventually result in death . |
| 23 | We must understand that hospitals are not designed for death , and yet they have become institutions of death . |
| 24 | She 's been going around lately looking like death warmed up . ’ |
| 25 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ She has all the best of me without my bad side , and if she were yours , it would almost seem as if we were not separated by death . |
| 27 | This chapter considers crimes against the person which do not result in death . |
| 28 | Nor does the issue of life and death rest only with your estate , as we have well seen in the fate of those earls lately in dispute with the king 's Grace who fell into the hands of certain lawless gatherings of commoners , and were shortly done to death . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not admit immortality , but I can not believe in death : that is to say , in my own death … |
| 30 | It may seem ridiculous to suggest that a suicide does not believe in death , but there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that some forms of suicide ( usually referred to as ‘ schizoid ’ ) are in fact attempts at rebirth . |