Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 3 | So just flogging it to death |
| 4 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 5 | ‘ Can I help ? ’ said a voice behind us , almost scaring me to death . |