Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to death with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am told that … the novice stabs the child to death with invisible blows . |
| 2 | For although there was work here , there had never been enough to supply the desperate horde which had applied for it , choking this ancient heart of the town to death with its demands for air and space and water , overwhelming its sanity resources , clogging its sewage channels , fouling its canal , draining its reservoirs . |
| 3 | ‘ The child peered inside and with an expression of profound disdain stamped the scorpions to death with his bare feet . ’ |
| 4 | A GANG of 10 men bludgeoned a mother-of-three to death with pickaxe handles and baseball bats after she was warned to stop throwing wild parties . |
| 5 | This flightless , quarter-ton relative of the Australian emu has a head like a monstrous purple turkey , runs through the undergrowth in small bands , and has been known to kick a man to death with its six enormous taloned toes . |
| 6 | TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |