Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to death [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them were implicated in the hounding to death of Chilperic 's son Merovech in 577 . |
| 2 | The reference to Death on a pale horse in the Apocalypse , and the shoemaker ? |
| 3 | ‘ I am told that … the novice stabs the child to death with invisible blows . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 6 | the sentencing to death of a number of people in Iraq on charges of spying for Iran and Israel ; |
| 7 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The court appearance follows the stabbing to death in Gloucester last weekend of a Swindon man , Paul Kempster . |
| 10 | ON May 13 , 1986 , we published an article entitled ‘ A force to be reckoned with ’ which mentioned factors likely to deter potential black recruits from joining the police force at that time and cited as one example ‘ the beating to death of a black Hell 's Angel by policemen ’ . |
| 11 | The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police . |
| 12 | Death sentence : A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death for blasphemy against Mohammad . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | BENJAMIN Bream , stepson of the guitarist Julian Bream , was yesterday found guilty of stabbing a friend to death during an argument at a party . |
| 15 | A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight . |
| 16 | A 29-YEAR-OLD Kilmarnock man who beat a nightwatchman to death in Dumfries was jailed for life yesterday . |
| 17 | A GATECRASHER stabbed a man to death at a nurse 's 21st birthday party in a hospital . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A GLASGOW man was jailed for ten years yesterday for stabbing a man to death during a struggle . |
| 21 | THREE men appeared in court yesterday charged with beating a man to death in Grangemouth . |
| 22 | The patient in whom sphincterotomy was performed had a reduced analgesic requirement for three months but subsequently relapsed ; pain control remained a problem to death at 19 months , with progression of the cholangiographic abnormalities shown at 15 months ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 23 | That sort of killing was done by lighted petrol thrown through a window , or a kicking to death in a dark street . |