Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all five victims were stabbed or shot to death , Susan Atkins dipped a towel in Sharon Tate 's blood and daubed the single word ‘ Pig ’ on the living-room door . |
| 2 | A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder . |
| 3 | He was now arrested , tried for treason for his support of Jane Grey and condemned to death . |
| 4 | He was tried and condemned to death , but spared because of Edward 's former affection for him and because of his marriage to the king 's niece . |
| 5 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 6 | Here we 've got him being spat at and condemned to death . |
| 7 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 8 | Alcoholic Linda Ann McMullen , who was beaten and suffocated to death |
| 9 | The dog must have run away and , being such a pampered animal , crawled back and pined to death for its mistress . |
| 10 | The son of a caretaker who had annoyed them was waylaid by four of them and bludgeoned to death . |
| 11 | Delaney could see the huge , blistered areas where the white phosphorus had burned into the flesh , the same flesh he had blown and burned , and shot to death less than five minutes before . |
| 12 | One featured a policeman recording his own murder as his patrol car camera showed him being beaten and shot to death . |
| 13 | Backpackers stabbed and shot to death |
| 14 | First tonight the daughter of a millionaire farmer has been beaten and shot to death . |
| 15 | Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death . |
| 16 | Eric 's head was too big for her ; she haemorrhaged and bled to death on the marital bed back in 1960 . |
| 17 | He got out his knife but stabbed to death his brother , who was attempting to restrain him . |
| 18 | In one patient symptoms became much less marked after one month but persisted to death at three months . |