Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Jeffrey had apparently either been rescued or cruelly done to death .
2 The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication .
3 During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain .
4 Two men were arrested but not brought to trial .
5 However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament .
6 In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants .
7 Prisoners had also been killed , including several dozen at Bubanza Gendarmerie who were gagged and then beaten to death with pieces of pipe .
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