Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] to death [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | NIGHTCLUB boss Lincoln Pennant plunged 35ft onto spiked railings after being blasted to death by mobsters . |
2 | Jonah , disliking the task for unexplained reasons which might have had something to do with a fear of being stoned to death by the partying Ninevites , ran away . |
3 | This may well have been the case in September 1987 but I thought most reviewers were scared to dive in and uncover the record 's moments of uncoordinated parody for fear of being trampled to death by hordes of rampant Smiths devotees . |
4 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
5 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
6 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
7 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
8 | CASSANDRA KING was the last person to be condemned to death in Stamford and because of this her story has become exaggerated . |
9 | Insanity was , and still is , a complete defence to crime , as we saw in Chapter 6.2 above , but its confines are narrow , and some persons obviously suffering from mental disorder came to be sentenced to death for murder before 1957 . |
10 | At the same time it would be wise for Geoff Cooke and his team to recognise that the squad should still be supremely fit after the World Cup and ought not to be flogged to death by being put through intensive squad weekends . |
11 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
12 | It 's a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross , and it says there there were two others also who were criminals were being led away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to place called the skull , there they crucified him and the criminals , one on the right , and the other on the left . |
13 | In 790 a Northumbrian nobleman , Eardwulf , was captured and brought to Ripon where orders were given by Aethelred for him to be put to death outside the gates of the monastery . |
14 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
15 | WHEN he played cop turned-publican Eddie Royle in EastEnders , he met a grisly end by being stabbed to death in a park . |