Example sentences of "to death with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 2 | THE LAST movements of a financial consultant found battered to death with a claw hammer in a quiet village are to be reconstructed today . |
| 3 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 4 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 5 | She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David , 48 , who then killed himself . |
| 6 | A PRISONER was battered to death with a table leg . |
| 7 | He was accused of asking labourer William Coleman to stab Helen , a nurse , to death with a screwdriver as she left work at Pinderfield 's Hospital , Wakefield . |
| 8 | A MOTHER was found by her husband throttled to death with a washing line in her garden . |
| 9 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 10 | The Kinzoku Bat Murderer , for instance , bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a baseball bat in the early Eighties . |
| 11 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne bludgeoned his sleeping brother to death with a mallet in a row over girls , a court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A MAN who hacked his father-in-law to death with a Samurai sword in a row over drugs was yesterday jailed for life . |
| 13 | He battered 43-year-old Jane to death with a bottle at their £275,000 weekend home at Middleton-on-Sea , Sussex . |
| 14 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 15 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 16 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 17 | A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) . |
| 18 | A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she forever after keeps in her shopping bag . |
| 19 | Wade John Frankum , 33 , hacked a 15 year-old girl to death with a machete before rampaging through the shopping complex firing randomly at bystanders . |
| 20 | What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ? |
| 21 | Their mother had been battered to death with a hammer . |
| 22 | A MAN beat a lone woman hiker almost to death with a rock after she turned down his sexual advances , a court heard . |
| 23 | ‘ The Crown 's case is that on the morning of 31 October , 1991 , in a storeroom at the rear of their home , he clubbed his young wife to death with a lump hammer . ’ |
| 24 | Green has pled not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to murdering his wife , Julie , 24 , by clubbing her to death with a lump hammer in a storeroom at the rear of their home in Gidlow Lane , Wigan , in October 1991 . |
| 25 | A SON jailed last year for blasting his sadistic and tyrannical father to death with a shotgun lost his appeal against his four-year sentence yesterday . |
| 26 | A MAN who bludgeoned two youths to death with a baseball bat was jailed for life at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday . |
| 27 | Michael Maddison is led away in handcuffs from the High Court yesterday after being jailed for life for bludgeoning two youths to death with a baseball bat |
| 28 | It could almost have been dead already : a passive progression from birth to death with no awareness of life at all . |
| 29 | I said , look I said , your eighty three quid like that for the wha and standing charge I said , and there 's yo you freezing to death with no heating on ! |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose it 's a little bizarre but the children are tickled to death with the cards , ’ she added . |