Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] death with a " in BNC.

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1 The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings .
2 Wade John Frankum , 33 , hacked a 15 year-old girl to death with a machete before rampaging through the shopping complex firing randomly at bystanders .
3 Again and again , Tracy upstaged Gable by returning from the point of death with a weak smile until Gable finally dropped Tracy and yelled , ‘ Die , goddammit , Spence !
4 In the Funeral March Gavrilov 's consistently maintained pulse brings home the inexorability of death with a noble dignity , while the trio , totally unsentimentalized by rubato , is a truly ethereal , Elysian vision .
5 A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she forever after keeps in her shopping bag .
6 ‘ The Crown 's case is that on the morning of 31 October , 1991 , in a storeroom at the rear of their home , he clubbed his young wife to death with a lump hammer . ’
7 The Kinzoku Bat Murderer , for instance , bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a baseball bat in the early Eighties .
8 A SON jailed last year for blasting his sadistic and tyrannical father to death with a shotgun lost his appeal against his four-year sentence yesterday .
9 A MAN who hacked his father-in-law to death with a Samurai sword in a row over drugs was yesterday jailed for life .
10 A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) .
11 JEALOUS Jason Osborne bludgeoned his sleeping brother to death with a mallet in a row over girls , a court heard yesterday .
12 A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies .
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