Example sentences of "to the [noun] for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed to the Portuguese for help , but died and was succeeded by his only surviving son , Claudius , before a Portuguese force under Christopher , son of the famous Vasco da Gama , arrived . |
| 2 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 3 | She appealed to the onlookers for help . |
| 4 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 5 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 6 | With few exceptions , they have turned to the TNCs for help in this daunting task . |
| 7 | In 1381 , the depressed peasantry exploded in revolt , appealing with singular naivety to the king for help . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the cessation of major hostilities left the northern English border exposed to endemic raids and marauding : the northern magnates looked to the crown for help to repulse and extinguish these threats . |
| 9 | With such a man as their representative , Albanians can only look to the West for help before it is too late . |
| 10 | Despite early successes , the rebel armies could not withstand the intervention of Russian forces , for Francis Joseph had appealed to the Tsar for help . |
| 11 | Today pensioners from Nuffield Press in Cowley and Hazel , in Aylesbury were amoung hundreds lobbying Parliament , with the shortfall affecting up to two hundred people in the region they 're now turning to the government for help . |
| 12 | Meanwhile two members of the dead woman 's family have appealed to the public for help in catching her killer . |
| 13 | The boat 's gone down and she 's in the river ! ’ they screamed , and ran back to the village for help . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding the plant 's poor track record , Tom O'Reilly considered it to be his bounden duty to respond to the call for help from his compatriot , the Irish Prime Minister , and so he phoned McGillicuddy , who readily agreed , and Mark was instructed to contact the PM 's office . |
| 15 | Now another Angevin had responded to the call for help . |
| 16 | As he ran to the hotel for help , Buzz realized that Elinor 's escape would have to be postponed . |
| 17 | Any company can look to the network for help with its marketing overseas . |
| 18 | After that , it can turn to the Continent for help even through the three-times-daily contacts with other central banks via a telephone hotline . |
| 19 | In desperation the Dwarfs sent to the Empire for help . |
| 20 | He looked to the playmaster for help , but Garvey had one hand behind his back , spread as if to say , ‘ Do n't move . ’ |
| 21 | The Popes appealed to the Franks for help and they responded by invading Lombardy to administer a sharp lesson . |
| 22 | I hunted high and low for reference material about machine knitting ; I wrote back to the States for help . |
| 23 | It is advisable for the claimant to take along one written estimate for the funeral before the arrangements are made , in order to ensure that the cost will be met by the DSS , but a bill can be taken after the funeral to the DSS for help . |
| 24 | I looked to the Sheikha for help . |
| 25 | Now , if you , if a woman gets hurt and she goes to the police for help they come to the house and they tell the people concerned it 's a domestic argument ! |
| 26 | They 'll go to court on Friday … and if the travellers still refuse to leave … then the conbservators will turn to the Police for help . |
| 27 | The woman ran to a friend in college and immediately went to the Police for help … she 's now too frightened to leave college at night . |
| 28 | TAYSIDE Region , the first local authority in the United Kingdom to set up a special team to tackle classroom bullying , may turn to the tormentors for help in tackling the problem . |
| 29 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 30 | To order the variables and decide which should be brought under control , we have to use all the theoretical and rational resources available to us ; we can not appeal to the data for help . |