Example sentences of "he could help [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 3 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
| 4 | Said he could help me . |
| 5 | Getting his drift , I willingly agreed as long as he could help me out with my goalkeeper crisis . |
| 6 | Suddenly he walked back to me and said I ought to avenge my father 's death and that he could help me . |
| 7 | I had not been there long when an officer appeared , shook my hand and asked if he could help me in any way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Marjorie turned her back to him so that he could help her out of her coat . |
| 12 | He could help her regain her health , even give her a sense of her own worth if he persevered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He did not even think about Greg Martin if he could help it . |
| 17 | Not if he could help it . |
| 18 | Which was not to say that he intended to be a martyr tonight , if he could help it . |
| 19 | None of it , if he could help it . |
| 20 | And you ca n't be telling me that Harry went near running water if he could help it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps he could help us on that . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |