Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG mum was brutally knifed to death just moments after taking her five year-old daughter to school yesterday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You said Nicola was brutally stabbed to death , Superintendent . |
| 4 | A problem somewhat done to death : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Leonie Gadd was 20 when she died … she literally starved to death . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the Ragdoll , lacking these responses , could be literally loved to death by unthinking children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He will not freeze to death . |
| 14 | Apparently not bleeding to death , or considered worthy of priority , I just had to wait my turn . |
| 15 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 16 | This is one of the most crucial periods when breeding any of the gouramis as the babies are very small and can easily starve to death if enough food is not in front of their noses . |
| 17 | ‘ If you keep asking for things you 'll be too expensive to keep — we 'll all just starve to death or you 'll have to be sent away to a Home where they 'll lock you up . |
| 18 | Yet the first statement could very easily apply to Death and Hell ( Matthew xvi , 18 , ‘ and the gates of hell shall not prevail ’ ) , the second to Christ and the Second Coming . |
| 19 | Hundreds of thousands have already starved to death . |
| 20 | Los Angeles plans to stop slowly choking to death : John Lichfield , in Los Angeles , finds out how California 's biggest city intends to reverse 20 years of lax pollution control with an assault on its ‘ drive-in ’ lifestyle |
| 21 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 22 | The jury heard how a social worker was horrifically knifed to death on a late-night train . |
| 23 | Once sentenced to death the nightmare gets worse : very little care is taken with the inmate 's emotions . |
| 24 | A pounce , the cheetah 's jaws fasten on the gazelle 's throat , and it is quickly throttled to death . |
| 25 | Baby illness does not , of course , always lead to death . |
| 26 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 27 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 28 | Only a Tzarina can wield it and if any man were even to touch the blade he would be instantly frozen to death . |
| 29 | The three main co-accused — Traore 's defence minister , Gen Mamadou Coulibali , his interior minister , Gen Sekou Ly , and former army chief , Col Ousmane Coulibali — were also sentenced to death . |
| 30 | Eleven-year-old Lesley vanished at Rochdale , Greater Manchester and was found three days later stabbed to death . |