Example sentences of "threatened [pers pn] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR men tied up a middle-aged builder and his wife and threatened them with machetes before ransacking their home , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’ |
| 3 | In the tumult which ensued , the terrified monks made their escape , only to find their way blocked by the same young lord with fifty knights , who threatened them with death . |
| 4 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 5 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 6 | Ferdinand I threatened them with expulsion , but the Dutch humanist Erasmus successfully intervened . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that 's why you threatened me with Eddie 's IOUs ? ’ |
| 8 | On four occasions the appellant accosted a woman in the street , threatened her with violence , on three occasions carrying a knife , and stole or attempted to steal the victim 's purse . |
| 9 | He revealed details of furious rows between Diana , her husband and Prince Philip , and an agreement Diana made to stay in the Royal Family after the Queen threatened her with exile . |
| 10 | A new chapter of his book Diana : Her True Story discloses details of furious rows between the Princess , her husband and Prince Philip , and reveals the agreement Diana made to stay in the Royal Family after the Queen threatened her with exile . |
| 11 | A SALES representative who punched a young barmaid in a Harrogate nightclub wept yesterday as a judge threatened him with prison . |
| 12 | Cadfael could not choose but feel some sympathy for one whose dubious but daring enterprise had come full circle , and now threatened him with disgrace and punishment ; all the more as Cadfael himself had just been spared a possibly similar exposure . |
| 13 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 14 | The more we expanded , the worse our cashflow got till , in the end , our very success threatened us with bankruptcy . |