Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 3 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 4 | You 'll only frighten her to death . ’ |
| 5 | I want to spray the little devils , not kick them to death ! |
| 6 | So just flogging it to death |
| 7 | You will soon be well , if I do not talk you to death . |
| 8 | Left alone , the place would rapidly choke itself to death , it seemed . |
| 9 | Penda had taken Eadfrith , son of Eadwine , into Mercia with him after the battle of Hatfield , possibly with the intention of restoring him one day in Deira as a dependent ruler , but perhaps ill-advisedly put him to death during the reign of Oswald ( HE 11 , 20 ) — though conceivably prevailed upon to do so by Oswald . |
| 10 | They went to Joseph Hyde — probably because he was the one connection they had between the Irish organization and me , and then they nearly beat him to death just so Lee could make his report to you . |
| 11 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 12 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 13 | ‘ You 're lucky I did n't beat him to death ! ’ he bit out , the car screeching round the mountain road in hot sunlight . |
| 14 | ‘ You mind she does n't shag you to death , ’ one of them said . |
| 15 | How could grown men and women risk excommunication , persecution , and even burn themselves to death rather than see the altar procession move from left to right , the number of alleluias cut from three to two , and the number of fingers used in making the sign of the cross raised from two to three ? |
| 16 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
| 17 | ‘ Can I help ? ’ said a voice behind us , almost scaring me to death . |
| 18 | Realising that she had not loved him , Boris then starved himself to death . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's where my family live , ’ he says distantly , and slowly drink himself to death . |
| 20 | Given that he had half frightened her to death to begin with , he 'd been a gentle lover too , she recalled , a tender smile playing around her mouth . |
| 21 | bloody frighten her to death . |
| 22 | Cos I absolutely spray myself to death ! |
| 23 | I bet you they would n't find it quite so glamorous if , instead of getting drunk and shooting her , he 'd got drunk and accidentally beaten her to death . |