Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] to death " in BNC.

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1 You kiss it to death yerself ?
2 No , you , you frit me to death Con .
3 Meanwhile , the English soldiery hunted down every Irishman suspected of helping the French and put them to death in a variety of ingenious fashions .
4 ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another .
5 Freeze him to death .
6 Put him to death !
7 As soon as they see their names on the leaderboard they worry themselves to death until their name 's gone off the board .
8 And what I 'd really like you know I have little things that bug you to death ?
9 I want to spray the little devils , not kick them to death !
10 He and Dorothy would lie in wait the following day and cudgel her to death .
11 Perching on wires or bush tops on look out for bees , wasps and other flying insects ; flight swallow-like , with long glides on triangular wings and tremendous acceleration to capture prey , after which they return to perch with a graceful upward sweep and batter it to death before swallowing it .
12 Chen wanted to reach out and take Herrick by the throat and choke him to death , but first he had to get hold of the copy and get out with it .
13 His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death .
14 Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours .
15 Perhaps I would run away , or starve myself to death .
16 Some of these girlie fans must think that David is wonderful but I do n't think they want to grab hold of him and shag him to death .
17 bloody frighten her to death .
18 If he caught him up here again he 'd see him off , scare him to death .
19 Miss Shields , 27 , is currently filming a CBS TV movie , I Love You To Death — The Laura Black Story .
20 Mm well we love him to death .
21 She chuckled , then might pick up the animal by the scruff ( if it were a cavey , or a bird ) , and dash it to death on the ground and spill the guts to read them for herself , then sprinkle blood inside the circle and on her cheeks and brow .
22 QueenSpark Books present two simultaneous writing workshops : ‘ Love 'em to Death ’ writing about romance , ‘ Steamy Stories ’ writing about sexuality and desire .
23 ‘ I love it to death . ’
24 stab myself to death .
25 She could still see the tableau this morning : her father with tears of pride in his eyes — she knew he would go to the business and bore everyone to death with tales about how his wonderful daughter was going to university .
26 The calves must be roped and led out of the stockade first , lest the terrified adults trample them to death .
27 He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick .
28 How could grown men and women risk excommunication , persecution , and even burn themselves to death rather than see the altar procession move from left to right , the number of alleluias cut from three to two , and the number of fingers used in making the sign of the cross raised from two to three ?
29 Cos I absolutely spray myself to death !
30 Sentence me to death if it makes you feel better .
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