Example sentences of "[vb past] to death " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder . |
| 2 | A MOTHER was found by her husband throttled to death with a washing line in her garden . |
| 3 | ‘ My virginity was wet noodled to death . |
| 4 | Mother burned to death with son in her arms |
| 5 | The only confirmed death so far is a 16-year-old boy who burned to death after he knocked over a candle . |
| 6 | The officer in command of a military unit which in July 1986 burned to death a photographer , Rodrigo Rojas de Negri , and severely burned his colleague , Carmen Quintana Arancibia [ see p. 34985 ] was in August 1989 condemned to 300 days ' imprisonment by a military court . |
| 7 | The day before the conference I received an appeal for help from the Jamaican Council of Human Rights whose offices have been torched , equipment damaged , over 3,000 files destroyed , and its courageous co-ordinator , Florez elle O'Connor subjected to death threats . |
| 8 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 9 | He was now arrested , tried for treason for his support of Jane Grey and condemned to death . |
| 10 | He was tried and condemned to death , but spared because of Edward 's former affection for him and because of his marriage to the king 's niece . |
| 11 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 12 | Of 252 people who were questioned , 51 were exiled and 21 condemned to death . |
| 13 | Here we 've got him being spat at and condemned to death . |
| 14 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 15 | An inquest jury has decided that a mentally handicapped boy scalded to death in a bath died because of a lack of care . |
| 16 | I 've sat there many a time , scared to death of the fire and my feet pins and needles . ’ |
| 17 | You ca n't go on living like this , scared to death . |
| 18 | A 12-YEAR-OLD girl was killed with an axe and a woman speared to death in an attack on a Cambodian village in which eight Vietnamese were killed , United Nations investigators said yesterday . |
| 19 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 20 | Alcoholic Linda Ann McMullen , who was beaten and suffocated to death |
| 21 | The dog must have run away and , being such a pampered animal , crawled back and pined to death for its mistress . |
| 22 | In one patient symptoms became much less marked after one month but persisted to death at three months . |
| 23 | Pop stars and society hostesses in S and M games that led to death . |
| 24 | Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births . |
| 25 | While the concept of elderly people as constructive members of the work-force may have failed to influence industry , the idea that retirement led to death and deterioration appeared to have been widely established . |
| 26 | Often such paintings pointed to the maxim that prostitution led to death , confirming the prostitute as the member of an outcast group . |
| 27 | The ones that led to death are obviously not with us . |
| 28 | Asbestos led to death of worker |
| 29 | He got out his knife but stabbed to death his brother , who was attempting to restrain him . |
| 30 | A man who stabbed to death his lover 's ex-husband in a court waiting room has had his sentence halved . |