Example sentences of "be eaten alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 2 | Terrified of choking and terrified that the rope would give way , that she would fall and be eaten alive by those metal teeth , she screwed her eyes tight and prayed . |
| 3 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 4 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 5 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |