Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to death " in BNC.
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| 61 | A Chancellor of the Exchequer who had failed to prevent thieves penetrating his treasury was summarily beaten to death . |
| 62 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 63 | GUNG HO Captain ‘ Birdseye ’ was heading home from icy seas last night after his crew almost starved to death . |
| 64 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 65 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 66 | We either freeze to death or starve to death . |
| 67 | Malcolm Kennedy had been jailed at the Old Bailey in September 1991 for allegedly kicking to death his cellmate , Patrick Quinn , at Hammersmith police station in west London early on Christmas Eve , 1990 . |
| 68 | The columnist Westbrook Pegler must have approved that passage , for he wrote : ‘ The only sensible way to deal with them is to make membership in Communist organizations a capital offence and shoot or otherwise put to death all persons convicted of such . ’ |
| 69 | EACH year in King county 16,500 stray dogs and cats are officially put to death . |
| 70 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 71 | Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death . |
| 72 | ‘ Oh , Dorothy my dear , there is a poor dog absolutely stifling to death in a car outside . |