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Example sentences of "help [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He helped her to his car , and took her home .
2	And at the moment he helped her into his car , he fell in love with her .
3	He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car .
4	His eyes were unreadable as he helped her into his car .
5	The gent helped her into his carriage
6	Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed .
7	He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea .
8	‘ There has to be a way , ’ he said as Endill helped him to his feet .
9	Wiping the old man 's mouth on a facecloth , Trent helped him to his feet .
10	Epitot helped him to his feet .
11	Jack helped him to his feet .
12	The Padre , who was passing , helped him to his bedroom and offered to call one of the doctors .
13	But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election .
14	She helped him to his sofa bed in the living room , and he still did not wake up .
15	He was given a lift home where son Paul and wife Grace helped him to his bedroom .
16	‘ Then , when we realised and accepted the situation , I just got on and helped him with his fight . ’
17	You knew my husband very well ; he wrote a book about waxworks and you helped him with his research .
18	Friends in Britain helped him with his fare ; his boss , when he knew what he was coming for , gave him unpaid leave .
19	Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) .
20	Live Theatre , Newcastle IN the programme , author Michael Chaplin pays thanks to a list of actors whose ‘ insight , reminiscence , anecdote , and plain idle chat ’ helped him with his writing .
21	Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood .
22	Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record .
23	Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school .
24	Paradoxically , what had been half-revealed by the Boston Bowl helped him in his exchange .
25	His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business .
26	It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever .
27	— Like Mrs Plews , Mr Jim Tomlinson , of Richmond , found the study helped him in his work as a teacher at Risedale School , Hipswell , Catterick Garrison .
28	But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps .
29	I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique .
30	As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ .