My guess is you'd felt threatened by him for years.

"Nothing will threaten our security for a long time to come now."

More serious cutting is threatened for 1996 during the second 100 days.

It was worse than anything he had threatened for me.

You would threaten the mother of us all for political gain.

This material will threaten human life and health for thousands of years.

The school board may even have threatened for a while to condemn the land.

We have been threatened for the past three or four years.

Pain threatened for her, became a reality, but she didn't try to push him away.

Surely this was something that had been threatening for years?