Example sentences of "he could help [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | If the treatment has caused any physical damage ( for example to your scalp or face ) visit your GP as a statement from him could help your case . |
2 | ‘ I had never met the man , but a friend had given him my number in case he could help me with my research , ’ says Lynsey . |
3 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
4 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
5 | Said he could help me . |
6 | Getting his drift , I willingly agreed as long as he could help me out with my goalkeeper crisis . |
7 | Suddenly he walked back to me and said I ought to avenge my father 's death and that he could help me . |
8 | I had not been there long when an officer appeared , shook my hand and asked if he could help me in any way . |
9 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
10 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
11 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
12 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
13 | I wish he could help himself . |
14 | Marjorie turned her back to him so that he could help her out of her coat . |
15 | He could help her regain her health , even give her a sense of her own worth if he persevered . |
16 | Diana de Moutis , entrusted with the sale of ‘ La Celestine ’ by its owner Georges Pellequer , contacted Didier Imbert in 1986 in the hope he could help her obtain an export licence . |
17 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
18 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
19 | He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it . |
20 | Not if he could help it . |
21 | Which was not to say that he intended to be a martyr tonight , if he could help it . |
22 | None of it , if he could help it . |
23 | And you ca n't be telling me that Harry went near running water if he could help it . |
24 | He no longer approached his bank manager with the trepidation of an errant sixth-former being summoned before a housemaster ; indeed , he no longer approached his bank manager at all if he could help it . |
25 | If the laboratory scientists were there already — and Lorrimer , the Senior Biologist , never missed a homicide if he could help it — then there might n't be much for him to do . |
26 | Never one to sit behind a desk if he could help it , he tried to see the battle front for himself , and was severely wounded . |
27 | A ‘ Harvey Wallbanger ’ was the most dangerous kind of driver — a real nut that no trucker would go anywhere near if he could help it . |
28 | In 1971 he thought he could help his brother in his illness by writing about their childhood . |
29 | I thought he wanted to see if he could help his father , but it was too late . ’ |
30 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |