Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to death " in BNC.
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| 31 | Major 's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 34 | Monday 's stories included that of the Annunciation , recalling both Adam 's fall and Christ 's redemption in such a way that sin and redemption appear as simultaneous action constantly re-enacted : Such meditation is closely connected with Julian 's visionary experience of the lord and the servant in which Adam and Christ become one figure , Adam falling and Christ instantly subjected to death as sin precipitates the Incarnation in the work of mercy and love . |
| 35 | On Thursday , three other Saudis were also put to death for robbing a bank vehicle . |
| 36 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 37 | The increasing judicial leniency shown to Sendero suspects had especially alienated the army from the judiciary , many of whose circuit judges had been habitually subjected to death threats by the guerrillas or were known to have accepted bribes from them . |
| 38 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 39 | Needless to say , he was soon talking to God on the big white telephone but that did n't stop his band-mates from trying to drink seven pints of water in 30 minutes , followed by a dry Weetabix race upon which the Kinkies nearly choked to death , thus depriving the world of a hot new item . |
| 40 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 41 | Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births . |
| 42 | Malawi : Vera Chirwa , originally sentenced to death , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 43 | In China , poachers of rare animals such as pandas are often sentenced to death . |
| 44 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 45 | In our problem the men whom the defendant presumably sends to death are themselves dragging the leader to what will otherwise be his death . |
| 46 | ‘ They will know all about our reputation and they 'll come here frightened to death . ’ |
| 47 | If anything , I just make sure I do n't starve to death . |
| 48 | Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day . |
| 49 | There were reports in late 1989 of maltreatment of prisoners at the Yaoundé central prison , where in December two former Army officers imprisoned after the 1984 coup attempt were reportedly beaten to death . |
| 50 | For Bury was an Army Town ; not like Aldershot or Pirbright : just a modest place which had , at one point in its life , slowly bled to death from the loss of its young men in the First World War . |
| 51 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 52 | I 'm lying there frightened to death and then I 'm worn out . |
| 53 | The priest had been summarily done to death . |
| 54 | One dark night in 1471 , John Glynn was horribly done to death and his body found near Morval at Higher Wringworthy . |
| 55 | The court has been told that , minutes later and in daylight , Mrs Wilks , 22 , was abducted , then stabbed to death . |
| 56 | Life is a natural cycle just like the changing seasons so youth must move to middle age and then proceed to death . |
| 57 | " We can not stand by , " he said , " while more and more people from East Germany and Eastern Europe come over here , while the economies there bleed to death and here unemployment rises . |
| 58 | 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 ! |
| 59 | Mrs Oram 's three-year-old son Charles almost choked to death in thick fumes after the £30 Safe and Sound monitor ‘ spontaneously ignited ’ . |
| 60 | Prisoners had also been killed , including several dozen at Bubanza Gendarmerie who were gagged and then beaten to death with pieces of pipe . |