Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 2 | The offence took place between July 15 — the day Rachel , 23 , was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the common in front of her three-year-old son — and July 24 . |
| 3 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 4 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez was arrested on 5 April 1990 in Havana and brought to trial on 12 October on charges of making ‘ enemy propaganda ’ . |
| 5 | The Observer commented that ‘ apparently network controller Michael Green thinks books are well enough covered in programmes such as ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Nightwaves ’ , and plugged to death on Melvyn Bragg 's ‘ start the Week ’ ’ . |
| 6 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |
| 7 | One 3OOkg false killer whale , after hours of being teased and tortured , had its throat cut and bled to death on the dock . |
| 8 | As for Mrs Dunstaple , she was so distraught that she no longer knew what she was doing and had been taken away , given a composing draught surreptitiously obtained from Dr McNab , and put to bed on her shelf in the pantry . |
| 9 | By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead , having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood . |
| 10 | ‘ It would not have been able to fly and starved to death on the ground . |
| 11 | The matter of weeding policy in academic libraries as related to policy on collection size is discussed at greater length in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | The safety case regime in the North sea is based to a considerable extent on the CIMAH regulations — the major accident hazard regulations as applied to industry on land . |
| 13 | Few of the proposals were contentious , leaving the debate to be sharpened by the emotive issues of corporal punishment , which was included in the Bill as presented to Parliament on Second Reading , and the death penalty , which was not . |
| 14 | The new subject clusters , as they are sometimes termed , have grown in importance , such as policy studies , and there is a much greater emphasis on the development of personal and social skills as opposed to concentration on conceptualization and theoretical analysis . |
| 15 | WHEN RETURNED TO POWER ON THE CITY COUNCIL THE CONSERVATIVES WILL : — |