Example sentences of "[noun sg] threaten [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 2 | To his considerable credit , he persisted with the cause of press freedom even when his stand threatened to take him to gaol 20 years ago . |
| 3 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 4 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 5 | He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan . |
| 6 | When sleep threatens to take him from me yet another time , I remind Crilly of a line from the film Drugstore Cowboy , in which the heroine says , ‘ You never fuck me and I always have to drive ’ . |
| 7 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |