Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] death " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | there was no evidence of any physical injury having been sustained before death |
| 2 | People have always been fascinated by death and murder . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The lad on its back , dolled up as King William , had been crushed to death against the wall . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 7 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 8 | The view has been accepted that the state which has traditionally been regarded as death in a human being is reached when the brain , including the brain-stem , is destroyed . |
| 9 | Once convinced , however , that no major philosophical change was involved , but merely the identification by reference to more sophisticated criteria of what has always been regarded as death , medical lawyers have increasingly come to accept brain-stem death as the legal description also . |
| 10 | It was different from the Christian story in being about a race which had not been punished by death , rather by weariness of life ( see especially Letters , p. 236 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | this decision confirmed in the Lords 5.3.92. to succeed in such a claim it be necessary to show that an injury had been received before death occurred . |
| 14 | POLICE hunting the killer of a champion Ayrshire cow believe it may have been slashed to death by a jealous farmer . |
| 15 | She had been knifed to death . |
| 16 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 17 | I have been prepared for death for many years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , a young girl has been stabbed to death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He 'd been stabbed to death . |
| 24 | A pathologist has confirmed that a British holidaymaker whose body was found in an Australian forest , had been stabbed to death , and another shot . |
| 25 | ‘ Been looking like death lately , she has . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 30 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |