Example sentences of "to death of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Hastings-Day , vice-chairman of the Conservative Disability Group , said the disabled should be able to buy the services they need from privately run agencies : ‘ I am sick to death of social workers sitting around having case conferences . |
| 2 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 3 | ON May 13 , 1986 , we published an article entitled ‘ A force to be reckoned with ’ which mentioned factors likely to deter potential black recruits from joining the police force at that time and cited as one example ‘ the beating to death of a black Hell 's Angel by policemen ’ . |
| 4 | I 'm sick to death of them cluttering up my hall like that . |
| 5 | He killed himself because he was literally sick to death of fighting some of the largest manufacturers of FM radios for the royalties they owed him . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 7 | I am absolutely sick to death of irresponsible dog owners who allow their dogs to foul public footpaths . |
| 8 | Their research , detailed in Sick to Death of Homelessness , shows the death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population , with more than 600 dying on the streets last year . |
| 9 | She treats the mothers and fathers just the same as the children and they 're all scared to death of her . |
| 10 | I 'm also sick to death of patronising DJ shits like Simon Bates saying that Sinead is ill and that when she is being nice , she is the loveliest person in the world . |
| 11 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 12 | I 've sat there many a time , scared to death of the fire and my feet pins and needles . ’ |
| 13 | But he 's frightened to death of saying anything . |
| 14 | ‘ I was scared to death of Coppola , ’ Lowe says . |
| 15 | I 'm sick to death of the worry it 's brought , what with the lease-owners demanding money from me , when I 've no bloody rents to collect there … |
| 16 | I 'm sick to death of sharing you with your business . |
| 17 | That suited Comfort , because she was sick to death of war stories and all she wanted to do was forget the whole horrible business and somehow get her life back on to its prewar footing . |
| 18 | ROS : Well I can tell you I 'm sick to death of it . |
| 19 | Herring , herring ! until you were sick to death of them . |
| 20 | I AM sick to death of people decrying this year 's GCSE results . |
| 21 | If the existing carpet is in reasonable condition but you 're sick to death of it you could add rugs to cheer it up . |
| 22 | Only I was just scared — I could have broken her in two with my bare hands and I was scared to death of her . |
| 23 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 24 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 25 | The move followed the court martial and sentencing to death of 10 soldiers , allegedly involved in a series of murders and robberies in Kinshasa . |
| 26 | **Janata Dal ( Gujarat ) ( JD-G ) 1 Independent 1 Countermanded due to death of candidate or electoral violence/malpractice 12 Results whithheld 5 Punjab seats ( elections not held ) 13 Jammu and Kashmir seats ( elections not held ) 6 Nominated by President 2 Total 545 |
| 27 | The catalyst for the demonstrations was the beating to death of a student demonstrator by riot police . |
| 28 | the sentencing to death of a number of people in Iraq on charges of spying for Iran and Israel ; |
| 29 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 30 | I 'm sick to death of men who want to prove something . |