Example sentences of "was [verb] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | In A.D. 36 , for example , Stephen , usually hailed as Christianity 's first martyr , was stoned to death in Jerusalem , and many Nazareans fled the city . |
| 2 | As we have already noted , Stephen was stoned to death within a short time of the Crucifixion , and Saul of Tarsus was pursuing Nazareans in Damascus . |
| 3 | The last great Neo-Platonic philosopher , a woman , Hypatia , was stoned to death as she returned from a lecture at the library — again by ‘ Christians ’ — in A.D. 415 . |
| 4 | Mikey Smith was stoned to death but his words live on de same |
| 5 | He seems to have lost the knack when he most needed it , for he was stoned to death by unimpressed heathens . |
| 6 | There was even an Irish site destroyed for its own survival rather like the descendant of the prophet who was crushed to death so a shrine could be raised to his memory . |
| 7 | A GIRL was crushed to death by a falling goal post as she played football with her brother , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 8 | A BRILLIANT young woman lecturer was crushed to death when her horse collapsed and died on top of her . |
| 9 | A MOTHER-of-four was crushed to death by a boulder while walking on the holiday isle of Crete , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | DEVOTED housekeeper Annie Bowman was crushed to death as she tried to stop a thief stealing her boss 's JCB digger . |
| 11 | A PLAYFUL toddler was crushed to death in front of her parents in a tragic accident yesterday . |
| 12 | A WORKER was crushed to death between two massive reels of paper . |
| 13 | Fujio Ijuin , who was forty seven , was crushed to death at the firm 's plant in Swindon last week . |
| 14 | A coroner 's court has heard how a fifteen year old anti-hunt demonstrator was crushed to death by a horsebox . |
| 15 | He was crushed to death when the roof fell in . |
| 16 | Grace Bonar , 23 , mother of a four-year-old girl , was crushed to death when the car went over her as she climbed the stairs . |
| 17 | You brought me a hare to eat when I was starving to death . ’ |
| 18 | Revellers watched in horror as James Savva , 43 , was knifed to death during an argument at his Metrople Hotel at Ventnor , Isle of Wight . |
| 19 | Andrew and 49year-old Monica were touring in Canada when Rachel was knifed to death as she walked with Alex and her dog Molly on the common in South-West London . |
| 20 | It is believed she was knifed to death . |
| 21 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 22 | I remember in the terrible winter of 1962 – 63 we sat out eating a picnic lunch when everybody across the harbour was frozen to death . |
| 23 | When Roger Collins was sentenced to death aged 18 he had no idea what would happen next . |
| 24 | Her father was sentenced to death . |
| 25 | A Catholic priest was sentenced to death in September 1944 for publicly voicing the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ description of Dietl . |
| 26 | Penkovsky was sentenced to death with enormous publicity about his espionage activities . |
| 27 | John Carter was sentenced to death and hanged at Reading Gaol on 3 December 1893 . |
| 28 | Mata Hari , Malay wife of a Scotsman called MacLeod , was sentenced to death in Paris as a spy . |
| 29 | In 1961 , Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for war crimes . |
| 30 | Rabat : A TOP police chief who confessed to having sex with more than 1,600 women in a three-year spree of rape and abduction was sentenced to death yesterday . |