Example sentences of "to death [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sat there many a time , scared to death of the fire and my feet pins and needles . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sick to death of the worry it 's brought , what with the lease-owners demanding money from me , when I 've no bloody rents to collect there … |
| 3 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 4 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 5 | It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . |
| 6 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 7 | Her chief bodyguard , Jerry Richardson , was sentenced in 1990 to death for the boy 's murder . |
| 8 | Two illiterate Zulu youths , Zakhele Mbatha and Nicholas Dlamini , were sentenced to death for the murder . |
| 9 | The didactic works which the nobility used to educate their children stressed , in the words of the Burgundian , Ghillebert de Lannoy ( himself a nobleman ) , the obligation to ‘ expose themselves to death for the good of the land ’ , an ideal which many would have been able to read about in the works of classical authors such as Valerius Maximus , Livy and Caesar . |
| 10 | Sentenced to death for the casual murder of two teenage boys in San Diego in 1978 , Harris had lodged numerous appeals , several of which had been considered by the Supreme Court . |
| 11 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 12 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 13 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 14 | One 3OOkg false killer whale , after hours of being teased and tortured , had its throat cut and bled to death on the dock . |
| 15 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 16 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 17 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 18 | The offence took place between July 15 — the day Rachel , 23 , was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the common in front of her three-year-old son — and July 24 . |
| 19 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 20 | I played this one to death on the Speccy . |
| 21 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 24 | ‘ Burnt to death on the underground line . |
| 25 | It was hard to tell , at the moment , whether it would be moving at or away from him , but Sheikh , a patient and methodical child , looked ready to run after it and beat it to death on the boundary should this prove necessary . |
| 26 | Eric 's head was too big for her ; she haemorrhaged and bled to death on the marital bed back in 1960 . |
| 27 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 28 | 76 year old , Arthur Brumhill was found bludgeoned to death on the floor of this pet shop . |
| 29 | ‘ It would not have been able to fly and starved to death on the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose it 's a little bizarre but the children are tickled to death with the cards , ’ she added . |