Example sentences of "and threatening [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things crept across the room , then hovered above me , pale and threatening to suffocate me . |
| 2 | Now that France and the Low Countries were overrun the Germans were bombing shipping in the North Sea and threatening to invade England on 18 July . |
| 3 | During the admission he had shown very disturbed behaviour on the ward , attacking nurses , screaming and shouting at them , and threatening to kill them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On July 26 , 12 Asian and Pacific Rim countries and the European Communities ( EC ) issued a consensus statement at the meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in Manila [ for which see pp. 39005-06 ] , accusing the Khmers Rouges of " obduracy " and threatening to enforce economic sanctions by sealing access points to areas held by them , mainly in western Cambodia adjacent to Thailand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In response , the USSR Interior and Defence Ministries issued a joint statement on May 4 saying that responsibility for the latest violence lay solely with the Armenian leadership because of its support for paramilitary groups , and threatening to take " all necessary steps " to stop it . |
| 8 | We turn in , with the wind picking up even stronger and threatening to blow the lavvu away . |
| 9 | In this period the view of popular culture as degenerate and threatening came to be tempered by new pressures upon English academics to show that the discipline embodied a sense of social responsibility . |
| 10 | Railway workers at the state-owned Ferrocarrilles Argentinos began an indefinite strike on Feb. 5 , demanding a wage increase of 200 per cent and threatening to resist a government threat to use the army to break the strike . |
| 11 | She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 14 | The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children , then herself . |
| 15 | Previously he had made Scarlet 's life hell by waking every morning at cock-crow and threatening to go next door and complain : he never would have done so , since he was frightened of Constance 's mum and , indeed , of Constance and the rest of her family . |
| 16 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 17 | RAIN continued to play havoc with the week 's fixtures yesterday , claiming four meetings and threatening to hit more . |
| 18 | Rows with the shop got him nowhere so he contacted DAS who wrote on his behalf claiming Breach of Contract and threatening to sue . |
| 19 | And threatening to sue … daughter demands action over mother 's hospital death . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On March 31 Escobar had announced a resumption of a campaign of violence , offering rewards of US$4,000 and US$100,000 respectively for the killing of regular police and elite anti-drugs police , threatening to kill judges and the owners of the newspaper El Espectador , and threatening to explode 5,000-kg bombs in residential areas of Bogotá for every person extradited . |
| 22 | The high heels of Mrs Stych 's new , mink-trimmed bootees were now sinking into the Frizzell lawn and threatening to snap at any moment , so she knew she must be quick . |
| 23 | On the morning of Sept. 13 Radio Togo broadcast a communiqué read by a member of the armed forces attacking Koffigoh 's transitional government as " a complete failure " , and threatening to appoint a new government unless Koffigoh had done so by 11 a.m . |
| 24 | The gathering force of worrying rumour about the killing in asylums of mentally sick and incurably ill patients was one factor which , especially but not solely among practising Christians , was giving rise to grave concern and threatening to alienate support for the regime In August 1941 , news of the courageous open denunciation of the ‘ euthanasia action ’ by Bishop Galen of Münster spread rapidly and seems to have persuaded Hitler to halt the killing , at least inside the Reich itself . |
| 25 | He had reckoned without the mother , however , who started behaving very violently , plunging the house into darkness one night trying to electrocute herself , and threatening to wreck the warehouse where her husband kept his stocks . |
| 26 | ‘ Carry on , ’ she said , equally flatly , as if her stomach was n't bucking and churning and threatening to betray her . |
| 27 | They were accused of reducing new MPs to tears , using foul language to women rebels and threatening to have others de-selected . |
| 28 | Making life hell so he resigned , and threatening to expose his negligence to ensure he made the minimum of fuss , was much more acceptable to MacQuillan . ’ |
| 29 | It was from a man called Corosini , demanding the return of a key and threatening to expose her grandmother as a blackmailer . |
| 30 | 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 . |