Example sentences of "plea for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen . |
| 2 | ‘ Will you help run the lucky dip stall at the summer fayre from 1 pm until 3.30pm ? ’ is more likely to get a positive answer than a general plea for help with the summer fayre . |
| 3 | Marines raced from mine-clearing operations in Hoddur following a radio plea for help from the NBC crew as looters surrounded them . |
| 4 | A note blaming social services chiefs for ignoring their plea for help was on the dashboard . |
| 5 | In responding to a plea for help from Spain 's Popular Front government , Stalin was thus pursuing what he perceived to be the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | In a small town in Surrey an old woman 's plea for help leads to an unsettling encounter |
| 7 | As well as not being insensitive , he was by no means impervious to the sudden plea for help from a young and attractive lady . |
| 8 | It was almost as if he 'd reached out to clasp her hand in his plea for help , and she knew she 'd wanted to give him a lift . |
| 9 | Bootle MP Joe Benton sent an urgent message to Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine in a last ditch plea for help . |
| 10 | Plea for help after mother grabs boy |
| 11 | THE Princess of Wales yesterday made an impassioned plea for help in stopping the ‘ terrible waste of young lives ’ caused by homelessness . |
| 12 | POLICE are hoping to help their search for a man who attacked a hotel doorman , leaving him in a coma , by broadcasting a plea for help on the BBC 's Crimewatch programme . |
| 13 | A CHARITY which provides holidays for underprivileged children has issued a plea for help . |
| 14 | The Princess Royal yesterday made an impassioned plea for help on behalf of the country 's six million carers . |
| 15 | But they refused to hand him over to the US for trial and the coup crumbled when American troops stationed in Panama retaliated by ignoring their pleas for help against loyal troops . |
| 16 | What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help . |
| 17 | By the light of torches I could see one policeman but he could not see me , and my pleas for help were not heeded . |
| 18 | After a public appeal , more than 800 people who have regular nightmares flooded the Nightmare Research Unit at Bethlehem Royal Hospital , Beckenham , Kent with pleas for help . |
| 19 | A DESPERATE couple lovingly clasped their handicapped daughter to them and ended their lives after their pleas for help went unanswered . |
| 20 | They said they loved her dearly — but their pleas for help from social services had been ignored . |
| 21 | Residents were sexually assaulted or goaded into assaulting one another , it was alleged , while staff looked on , drinking beer , laughing and ignoring pleas for help . |
| 22 | A MOTORIST who witnessed a violent street robbery has failed to answer police pleas for help — even though they probably hold the vital key to solving the crime . |
| 23 | HEARTLESS motorists ignored pleas for help from a driver as he fought for his life after being stung by a wasp . |
| 24 | During the first week of hostilities Franco made pleas for help to both Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 25 | Count Raymond dared not risk battle against Richard 's massive army ; nor did the pleas for help which he sent to King Philip meet with any response . |
| 26 | At the same time , the growing threat of Arab expansion in the western Mediterranean evoked passionate pleas for help from the beleaguered popes . |
| 27 | Pleas for help from an Indian jail . |
| 28 | A MOTHER ignored her young daughter 's pleas for help during a two-year reign of terror in which her step-father raped and sexually abused her , a court heard yesterday . |
| 29 | Jacqueline Hamilton , 41 , also claims the police have ignored her pleas for help . |