Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 2 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 3 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 4 | Once that subject has been done to death I daresay they will bring up the subject of his large family . |
| 5 | Justine has been condemned to death . |
| 6 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 7 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 8 | … the venison is tainted , the vulnerable hare has been hunted to death to provide meat for this already groaning table , the guests gorge themselves until they are grossly bloated |
| 9 | A Pit Bull Terrier has been sentenced to death by magistrates , because her owner loosened her muzzle to allow her to drink from a puddle in the street . |
| 10 | A farmer who killed a panda in a reserve in Shaanxi province has been sentenced to death , suspended for two years , according to the Chinese Farmer 's Daily . |
| 11 | Andrei Chikatilo has been sentenced to death by shooting for committing fifty-two murders in Russia . |
| 12 | A MAN has been sentenced to death for throwing sulphuric acid on a girlfriend who split up with him , an official newspaper reported yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ No , a young girl has been stabbed to death . |
| 14 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 15 | Staffa , Iona and I never get on well together in the height of the tourist season , I know exactly what JTR meant in saying ‘ the route has been described to death ’ . |
| 16 | Victor Chandler the longest eleven to two , I should think he 's been trampled to death in the rush . |