Example sentences of "he was [verb] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUSA ANTER : A Kurdish journalist , he was shot to death in Diyarbakir , south east Turkey , on 20 September 1992 ; |
| 2 | He was condemned to death , and saved only by the intervention of a German padre . |
| 3 | He was condemned to death in his absence ( 469 ) and arrived in Persia as late as 465 , eluding en route an Athenian fleet which was besieging Naxos . |
| 4 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 5 | Patrick knew that he was bleeding to death . |
| 6 | ‘ He was stabbed to death this morning in Pentonville prison . |
| 7 | A warrior in the service of Cesare Borgia , he was stabbed to death in 1501 in a quarrel with another man over possession of a fancy Spanish shirt . |
| 8 | Paul Sheldon , 20 , was out with his 18-year-old brother , Peter , and a friend , Tom Cole , when he was stabbed to death in a quiet residential street in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | The computer-enhanced images were put together by police artists with help from Peter Sheldon , 18 , who was with his brother when he was stabbed to death . |
| 10 | He was scorched to death . ’ |
| 11 | He was crushed to death when the roof fell in . |
| 12 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 13 | He seems to have lost the knack when he most needed it , for he was stoned to death by unimpressed heathens . |
| 14 | He was sentenced to death in 1983 , although the sentence was commuted to a 20-year prison term in 1991 . |
| 15 | He was sentenced to death in absentia last December after being charged with ordering assassinations from abroad . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid he was sentenced to death yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | Troy has the mental age of a seven-year-old and he was sentenced to death for kidnap and murder , though Mr Stafford Smith does not accept that he did it . |
| 18 | Apparently , he was beaten to death and , as a result , swore that he would forever haunt the local area . |
| 19 | The authorities have not responded to widespread allegations that he was beaten to death . |
| 20 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 21 | For that he was put to death and there was , in one respect , a rough justice about it . |
| 22 | This was the William Joyce who mattered — the man who moved thousands to cheer his own version of the ‘ final solution ’ — not the political slapstick of Lord Haw-Haw for which he was put to death . |
| 23 | Doctor Teesdale visited the condemned man in prison once or twice during the week before he was put to death . |
| 24 | He was hacked to death by one of his own people as a result of a long-standing territorial vendetta over water rights — on the very strand where we were to see him waving us off . |
| 25 | Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin . |
| 26 | He was bayoneted to death by a soldier in front of two priests who had tried to protect him . |
| 27 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 28 | And he was burned to death . |