Example sentences of "[vb pp] to death [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG mum was brutally knifed to death just moments after taking her five year-old daughter to school yesterday . |
| 2 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A MAN was found stabbed to death yesterday after an all-night party to celebrate his engagement . |
| 5 | Rabat : A TOP police chief who confessed to having sex with more than 1,600 women in a three-year spree of rape and abduction was sentenced to death yesterday . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid he was sentenced to death yesterday . ’ |
| 7 | THE former Malian president , Moussa Traore , and three senior army officers were sentenced to death yesterday after a court found them guilty of mass murder in 1991 . |
| 8 | If the policeman had stopped him getting close to where Harry had been shot to death then Erlich might just have punched him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |
| 11 | One of those condemned to death legally , in August 1945 , was Pétain , though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | To call Duncan Campbell 's work on civil defence or the Cambridge University Disarmament Seminar 's Defended to death either propaganda or unreasoned is totally unfair . |
| 13 | So now he is clubbed to death instead , much to the surprise of the audience . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A BRILLIANT young woman lecturer was crushed to death when her horse collapsed and died on top of her . |
| 16 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |
| 17 | He was crushed to death when the roof fell in . |
| 18 | Grace Bonar , 23 , mother of a four-year-old girl , was crushed to death when the car went over her as she climbed the stairs . |
| 19 | Three men were crushed to death under seven thousand tonnes of rock . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Awful crimes had been committed by a civilized nation because Nazism had put to death over nine million people . |
| 22 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 23 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 24 | Six men had bled to death there in the snow or in the arms of friends and relatives as they carried them home . |
| 25 | The coroner concluded he had choked to death when he tried to climb out of his cot . |
| 26 | Police say the 45year-old ex-steelworker was kicked and beaten to death when he tried to stop a gang of vandals near his home . |
| 27 | The first recorded example of a team ( player ) being loved to death possibly . |
| 28 | An official at Zaporizha 's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately . |
| 29 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 30 | Last year an estimated 800 people from the slums built around the factories were burned to death when a pipe passing under their homes started spewing gasoline . |