Example sentences of "who [be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What about the poor beggars who were worked to death to feed them ? |
| 4 | A church service has been held in memory of a man who was stabbed to death in his back garden . |
| 5 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 6 | Colin Stagg has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son . |
| 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 | The daughter of a pensioner who was beaten to death has made an appeal for help in the hunt for her father 's killer . |
| 9 | There was even an Irish site destroyed for its own survival rather like the descendant of the prophet who was crushed to death so a shrine could be raised to his memory . |
| 10 | A LOYALIST paramilitary punishment squad is believed to be behind the vicious murder of a woman who was battered to death in her Belfast home . |
| 11 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 12 | He was laid to rest alongside his son , Arthur , jun , who was shot to death ; his daughter Margaret , who died in mysterious circumstances ; and his mother-in-law Maggie Harrison , who was blown up in a car-bomb attack almost certainly intended to kill Thompson himself . |
| 13 | At another inquest , a jury has decided that a man who was scalded to death in a bath at an old people 's home was the victim of an accident . |