Example sentences of "[conj] threaten [to-vb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 2 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 3 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 4 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 5 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 6 | Immigration officials detained him at Heathrow Airport and threatened to return him to Sweden . |
| 7 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 8 | Mr de Leon says that 30 armed police broke down his door and threatened to take him away . |
| 9 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 10 | Mr Rose himself wanted to move but his wife did not and threatened to leave him if he did accept the offer of employment in Huntingdon . |
| 11 | They then , ‘ … not knowing what honesty and far less the word of a soldier imported ’ , seized him and threatened to kill him if the Castle did not yield . |
| 12 | He listened in rapt concentration as Mr Mercer described how one soldier shot off his leg and threatened to kill him until he shouted back at him ‘ in best barrack room invective ’ . |
| 13 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 14 | Crown counsel said police received a complaint from a man on January 12 , 1992 , saying John Murray had held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him . |
| 15 | ‘ Sharp followed him in and picked up a 12-inch knife and threatened to kill him and other staff . |
| 16 | The sufferings he saw everywhere piled up more and more tasks and threatened to overwhelm him . |
| 17 | Kenneth finally lost his cool with a photographer this morning , and threatened to hit him . |
| 18 | Two men put a hood over his head , bound his hands and threatened to shoot him . |
| 19 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 20 | The Prince rebuked Ken for his interference and threatened to have him dismissed . |
| 21 | He struggled on alone , as against a blank wall of darkness and silence that blocked his light , stifled his breath , and threatened to make him mad . |
| 22 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 23 | He claimed she retaliated by turning the children against him and threatening to kill him , at one point sending him a Valentine 's Day card with skewers and a knife stuck in it . |
| 24 | But Edward was stunned last week to receive an abrupt letter from the DoE accusing him of ‘ damaging ’ their land and threatening to take him to court . |
| 25 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 26 | Flora Strachan , the ecology-conscious pensioner , had chased after him , waving a copy of her pamphlet An Uncommon Common and threatening to report him to the police . |
| 27 | Storrie admitted that in the early hours of 17 May last year he robbed the two 19-year-olds of £7 and a watch after seizing the man in Wilson Street , Glasgow , and threatening to stab him . |
| 28 | Salt seared his lungs and then the panicked Gomez flung his arms round Trent 's neck , choking him and threatening to drag him back down . |