Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to death with " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am told that … the novice stabs the child to death with invisible blows .
2 For although there was work here , there had never been enough to supply the desperate horde which had applied for it , choking this ancient heart of the town to death with its demands for air and space and water , overwhelming its sanity resources , clogging its sewage channels , fouling its canal , draining its reservoirs .
3 A GANG of 10 men bludgeoned a mother-of-three to death with pickaxe handles and baseball bats after she was warned to stop throwing wild parties .
4 This flightless , quarter-ton relative of the Australian emu has a head like a monstrous purple turkey , runs through the undergrowth in small bands , and has been known to kick a man to death with its six enormous taloned toes .
5 TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday .
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