Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , it can be anticipated that a judge investigating a disaster at a football ground in which ninety-five people have been crushed to death will reach out into public policy in putting forward ways of avoiding such tragedies in the future . |
| 2 | The lad on its back , dolled up as King William , had been crushed to death against the wall . |
| 3 | The newspaper Sovietsky Sport reported on July 8 , 1989 , that up to 340 people had been crushed to death in a stand of the Lenin Stadium in Moscow during a football match on Oct. 20 , 1982 . |
| 4 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 5 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 6 | Most victims have been hung , sometimes publicly and in groups , but many have also been stoned to death , beheaded , or subjected to flogging and amputation before being executed . |
| 7 | Some of the Phocaeans had been stoned to death by the Etruscans of Caere , traditional philhellenes ; some had to move to Elea in southern Italy . |
| 8 | POLICE hunting the killer of a champion Ayrshire cow believe it may have been slashed to death by a jealous farmer . |
| 9 | She had been knifed to death . |
| 10 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 11 | This is n't possible in the confines of a tank , so the new fish are hounded to death . |
| 12 | Most of them are frozen to death . |
| 13 | ‘ No , a young girl has been stabbed to death . |
| 14 | The mother , aged 22 , of Wolverhampton , had been stabbed to death and her husband , aged 30 , was hanging by an electric cable from a loft beam . |
| 15 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 16 | In a ‘ desperate struggle in a drunken crowd ’ a police officer had been stabbed to death in Wilmer Gardens , Hoxton , said to be ‘ a low neighbourhood infested by a very dangerous class ’ . |
| 17 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 18 | He 'd been stabbed to death . |
| 19 | A pathologist has confirmed that a British holidaymaker whose body was found in an Australian forest , had been stabbed to death , and another shot . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 21 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 22 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 23 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 24 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 25 | Once that subject has been done to death I daresay they will bring up the subject of his large family . |
| 26 | The use of very quiet sustained chords on muted trombones has not yet , however , been done to death and is recommended as a luxury in which the orchestrator might very occasionally indulge . |
| 27 | Dec. 14 Three Israelis are stabbed to death in Jaffa by Hamas guerrillas [ ibid . ] . |
| 28 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 29 | A Pit Bull Terrier has been sentenced to death by magistrates , because her owner loosened her muzzle to allow her to drink from a puddle in the street . |
| 30 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |