Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Russian spring been done to death in literature ? |
| 2 | You 're watching Central News here in the East Midlands , coming up next Police appeal for information after a horse is stabbed to death . |
| 3 | A EURO Disney hotel cashier was stabbed to death and robbed of cash he was putting in a safe at the Paris fun park yesterday . |
| 4 | A Catholic priest was sentenced to death in September 1944 for publicly voicing the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ description of Dietl . |
| 5 | Rabat : A TOP police chief who confessed to having sex with more than 1,600 women in a three-year spree of rape and abduction was sentenced to death yesterday . |
| 6 | I remember in the terrible winter of 1962 – 63 we sat out eating a picnic lunch when everybody across the harbour was frozen to death . |
| 7 | Holiday hero is savaged to death saving his love |
| 8 | Trolley accident … new guidelines issued after child is crushed to death . |
| 9 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 10 | Bruce Harris says : ‘ Can you imagine what would happen if a 13 year old boy was kicked to death by policemen in London ? |
| 11 | A GIRL was crushed to death by a falling goal post as she played football with her brother , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | A huge vat full of oil was bubbling over a monstrous bonfire and , bound hand and foot inside , stood a criminal being boiled to death . |
| 13 | Student teacher is stabbed to death . |
| 14 | Student teacher is stabbed to death . |
| 15 | Tourist is beaten to death in Oz |
| 16 | He told her that the cross was not religious , but marked the place where a criminal was put to death and buried . |
| 17 | Communal violence broke out in the Gujarat city of Ahmedabad on April 4 after an incident in which a Moslem was stabbed to death . |
| 18 | Rangers rarely respond to their outcry when a person is trampled to death by the same beasts . |
| 19 | To call Duncan Campbell 's work on civil defence or the Cambridge University Disarmament Seminar 's Defended to death either propaganda or unreasoned is totally unfair . |
| 20 | One person was sentenced to death , 41 sentenced to life imprisonment and 555 to terms of imprisonment of up to 36 years . |
| 21 | A PLAYFUL toddler was crushed to death in front of her parents in a tragic accident yesterday . |
| 22 | A BRILLIANT young woman lecturer was crushed to death when her horse collapsed and died on top of her . |
| 23 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 24 | Her father was sentenced to death . |
| 25 | A MAN was being questioned by police last night after a pregnant woman was stabbed to death in her home . |
| 26 | A WOMAN was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack at her home , detectives revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | In West Jerusalem an Israeli bar owner was stabbed to death by an Arab employee in an apparent revenge attack . |
| 28 | A MOTHER-of-four was crushed to death by a boulder while walking on the holiday isle of Crete , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | The killings came at the end of a weekend of racial violence in which a 27-year-old student was stabbed to death , more than 12 people seriously hurt and 25 arrested . |
| 30 | Man held after mother wife and daughter are beaten to death . |