Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 2 | She had come so close to death . |
| 3 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 4 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 5 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 6 | Although East Germany managed to staunch the flow on the eve of its 40th birthday , observers said it was still in danger of bleeding slowly to death , or of suffering convulsions brought on by repression on its streets . |
| 7 | He had rowed , uncomplaining , till they were safe ; bleeding silently to death from a deep stab wound in his back . |
| 8 | According to Thomas Edwards [ q.v. ] , a friend despite their differences , he was consumptive and often close to death , and rarely able to preach . |
| 9 | Tears had followed , both women understandably shaken by their ordeal , by the knowledge of how close to death they had come . |
| 10 | It 's only now , I suppose , that all of us who were involved have started to realise just how close to death we were . |