Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 2 | He had been sentenced to death by the castle commander and had been given the chance to prove his prowess with a gun and so saved his life . |
| 3 | James Terry Roach , electrocuted in South Carolina in 1986 , had been sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was 17 years old . |
| 4 | Phan Boi Chau had been sentenced to death . |
| 5 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 6 | In America a lady had been sentenced to death for hiring an assassin to shoot her father and her stepfather . |
| 7 | Kadour , who held French refugee status , had been sentenced to death in absentia following a coup attempt in July 1971 ( see pp. 24797-98 ; 25156 ) . |
| 8 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 9 | Bazoft had been sentenced to death on March 10 after a three-day trial . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 12 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 13 | Azhar had been sentenced to death in 1982 for his part in the 1981 hijacking by IIRC guerrillas of a domestic airliner to Thailand [ see pp. 32256-57 ] . |
| 14 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 15 | He had been sentenced to death in March by a Palestinian military tribunal sitting in Sana'a , Yemen . |
| 16 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 17 | Harris had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenage boys in San Diego on July 5 , 1978 , in order to steal their car for use in a bank robbery . |
| 18 | Touvier had been sentenced to death in absentia in 1946 and 1947 but was pardoned in 1971 . |
| 19 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 20 | The mother , aged 22 , of Wolverhampton , had been stabbed to death and her husband , aged 30 , was hanging by an electric cable from a loft beam . |
| 21 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 22 | In a ‘ desperate struggle in a drunken crowd ’ a police officer had been stabbed to death in Wilmer Gardens , Hoxton , said to be ‘ a low neighbourhood infested by a very dangerous class ’ . |
| 23 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 24 | A pathologist has confirmed that a British holidaymaker whose body was found in an Australian forest , had been stabbed to death , and another shot . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 26 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 27 | Some of the Phocaeans had been stoned to death by the Etruscans of Caere , traditional philhellenes ; some had to move to Elea in southern Italy . |
| 28 | She had been bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle by her husband David , 48 , who then killed himself . |
| 29 | Mrs Green had been bludgeoned to death with 16 blows of a lump hammer soon after she returned from working a night shift at a local hospital . |
| 30 | Husband Tony 's business colleague Alan Easton said : ‘ He rang to say his wife had been trampled to death by a herd of cows . |