Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 2 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 5 | But the path of political progress has become deadlocked following the breaking off of reform talks with de Klerk in June after the attack on the Boipatong township in which dozens of ANC supporters were hacked to death . |
| 6 | You 're watching Central News here in the East Midlands , coming up next Police appeal for information after a horse is stabbed to death . |
| 7 | A EURO Disney hotel cashier was stabbed to death and robbed of cash he was putting in a safe at the Paris fun park yesterday . |
| 8 | Richard was stabbed to death in the back garden of his home in Newtown 4 weeks ago . |
| 9 | A Catholic priest was sentenced to death in September 1944 for publicly voicing the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ description of Dietl . |
| 10 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 11 | Nor will the East End map show the Stoke Newington house where Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVitie was stabbed to death by Reggie through the eye , neck and stomach . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Deng Tianshun and Zhu Xiuying were sentenced to death in Guangzhou , China , for selling three giant panda skins between April 1988 and May 1989 . |
| 15 | Cosmas is burnt to death in his bed ; Damien killed by a mysterious archer who apparently can pass through thick walls , but there 's no clue to the riddle , no sign of the Templars and not a shred of evidence to indicate where the Grail or Excalibur lie . ’ |
| 16 | Holiday hero is savaged to death saving his love |
| 17 | Trolley accident … new guidelines issued after child is crushed to death . |
| 18 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 19 | In 1961 , Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death for war crimes . |
| 20 | Jay Kelly Pinkerton was sentenced to death in Texas for a murder committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 21 | Bruce Harris says : ‘ Can you imagine what would happen if a 13 year old boy was kicked to death by policemen in London ? |
| 22 | A GIRL was crushed to death by a falling goal post as she played football with her brother , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 23 | The body of one of the four , " Stompie " Moeketsie Seipei , was subsequently found on waste ground , and one of Winnie Mandela 's bodyguards was sentenced to death for his murder [ see pp. 36452 ; 37441 ] . |
| 24 | Mansur Rajih was sentenced to death . |
| 25 | This is n't possible in the confines of a tank , so the new fish are hounded to death . |
| 26 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 27 | Three Israeli factory workers were stabbed to death by members of the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement in the Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa on Dec. 14 . |
| 28 | Last year an estimated 800 people from the slums built around the factories were burned to death when a pipe passing under their homes started spewing gasoline . |
| 29 | The problem for women is highlighted by a thirty-year-old trainee RSPCA inspector , dismissed because she wept when dogs were put to death . |
| 30 | A huge vat full of oil was bubbling over a monstrous bonfire and , bound hand and foot inside , stood a criminal being boiled to death . |