Example sentences of "[noun sg] to death with [art] " 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 During the last match , the Husayn twins had nearly beaten the Bosnian refugee to death with the stumps after he had refused to accept a boundary decision .
3 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 .
4 A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she forever after keeps in her shopping bag .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
6 The Kinzoku Bat Murderer , for instance , bludgeoned his mother and father to death with a baseball bat in the early Eighties .
7 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 .
8 A MAN who hacked his father-in-law to death with a Samurai sword in a row over drugs was yesterday jailed for life .
9 It could almost have been dead already : a passive progression from birth to death with no awareness of life at all .
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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