Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] him in [art] " in BNC.

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1 This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks .
2 I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge .
3 Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them .
4 He did not recognize the man approaching him in a quiet corner of the drawing room , but feared he might be a drunken bore .
5 I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him .
6 Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance .
7 He was able to satisfy Royalist investigators that an out-payment which he had made in connection with the king 's trial and execution had simply been a routine matter , in no way implicating him in the actual regicide .
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