Example sentences of "to death and " in BNC.
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| 1 | DISNEY WORLD , home to Mickey Mouse , 101 Dalmatians and all manner of furry creatures , has been charged with beating wild vultures to death and illegally trapping other protected birds . |
| 2 | Yet more astonishingly we learn that the word of God is made flesh and is one of us and that God himself is tortured to death and that through our suffering and death we can share in God 's suffering and thereby , in some utterly incomprehensible way , in his life . |
| 3 | You 've got to find out what irritates you , annoys you to death and then translate that into a business . |
| 4 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 5 | A British tourist , Mr Edward Gait , and a West German were crushed to death and 12 other foreigners were injured when a restaurant roof collapsed in Arona , Tenerife , police said yesterday . |
| 6 | Reports from East European news agencies and diplomats gave graphic witness accounts of earlier violence in which armoured vehicles crushed demonstrators to death and police shot at anything that moved . |
| 7 | The New Testament writers were in no doubt that Jesus , through his resurrection , dealt a mortal blow to death and freed us from its influence and power . |
| 8 | It was smelly inside , made you feel as though you were choking to death and the eye-holes so small you could n't see out properly . |
| 9 | Once he and his family and animals are ritually stoned to death and burned and buried under a great heap of stones , then God 's anger evaporates , and the people are able to attack Ai again , and deliver up its inhabitants , men , women , and children , to the same fate as met those of Jericho ( 8.1–29 ) . |
| 10 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 11 | At the CIA , the Central American officers realized at the beginning of 1985 that something was up : not precisely that the contras had money , but ‘ Oh my , look at that , they are not starving to death and they are operating . ’ |
| 12 | I was wounded to death and dying on my knees , scrabbling in dead grass , my time running out with the moonlight , the shadows closing in . |
| 13 | John Carter was sentenced to death and hanged at Reading Gaol on 3 December 1893 . |
| 14 | ‘ I think that if he touched the electric fence when it was on , he 'd be frightened to death and we 'd never get near him again , ’ says Penny Stevens , his groom for the last five years . |
| 15 | One dark night in 1471 , John Glynn was horribly done to death and his body found near Morval at Higher Wringworthy . |
| 16 | Bombs still go off , children starve to death and people are imprisoned for their thoughts , not their crimes . |
| 17 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 18 | It is legal in Britain to inflict the indefensible cruelty of hounding defenceless animals to death and therefore the terrible stain of this brutality is on all our hands . |
| 19 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
| 20 | It is a fighting religion , which sends its enemies to death and hell ; only in the figure of Queen Bramimunde is there a hint of conversion , of a chance of salvation for the heathen . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 23 | It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets . |
| 24 | As a result Eck , the doctor and the engineer were found guilty , sentenced to death and executed by firing squad on Luneberg Heath . |
| 25 | Yet the first statement could very easily apply to Death and Hell ( Matthew xvi , 18 , ‘ and the gates of hell shall not prevail ’ ) , the second to Christ and the Second Coming . |
| 26 | Apparently , he was beaten to death and , as a result , swore that he would forever haunt the local area . |
| 27 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 28 | ‘ It would take time starving to death and it 's not a dignified way of dying , ’ he said . |
| 29 | A EURO Disney hotel cashier was stabbed to death and robbed of cash he was putting in a safe at the Paris fun park yesterday . |
| 30 | 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 . |