Example sentences of "be [verb] to death at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kim had been sentenced to death at her trial in April 1989 after confessing to having planted a bomb on a South Korean airliner which disappeared near the coast of Burma in November 1987 with the loss of all 115 passengers and crew [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 2 | Tunisian sources revealed on April 5 that Hamzah Abu Zayd , the Palestinian who assassinated Abu Iyad and two other PLO leaders in mid-January [ see pp. 37975-76 ] , had recently been sentenced to death at a Palestinian military tribunal in Yemen . |
| 3 | In that case the personal representatives of persons who were crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium claimed damages under the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 for pain and suffering alleged to have been sustained prior to their death . |
| 4 | Six of his retainers were put to death at York on the day of his own execution , together with another eleven rebels , including Roger Clifford and John Mowbray , whose claim to the lordship of Gower had been set aside by the king in 1319 . |
| 5 | Fujio Ijuin , who was forty seven , was crushed to death at the firm 's plant in Swindon last week . |
| 6 | A BRITISH businessman has been charged with murder in Thailand after his partner was stabbed to death at a beach resort . |
| 7 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 8 | Hippolytus , son of Theseus , was put to death at the instigation of his stepmother , Phaedra , whose attempts at seduction he had virtuously resisted . |