Example sentences of "help [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 2 | The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers . |
| 3 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 4 | When the Colonel was alive , he always took me shooting with him , and I helped look after his guns . |
| 5 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 6 | Marjorie Gedge helped serve on the T-shirt stall and when fans realised her identity , they demanded her autograph . |
| 7 | Indeed , the slogan of the Partido por la Democracia ( PPD ) — the party she helped found after the demise of the Pinochet regime — is ‘ Democracy in the Country and at Home ’ . |
| 8 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 9 | We will be printing a new cumulative index to help research into back issues of Women 's Art and some educational ‘ fact packs ’ . |
| 10 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said the cousins got some friends to help knock through an internal wall between the sitting room and kitchen of Crook 's flat . |
| 11 | Somewhere further up the scale is the seasonal dieter who goes on a diet in spring to get rid of the Christmas over-indulgence ; in summer to get ready for the beach ; in autumn to lose the fat gained from too many chips , ice-creams , and Tequila sunrises on holiday ; and in early winter to help prepare for the Christmas binge . |
| 12 | The government announced this week that it planned to send 53 Japanese soldiers there next month , to help prepare for UN-sponsored elections . |
| 13 | THE Clinton administration is considering loan guarantees and tax relief to help shore up the ailing US airline industry , as well as lifting restrictions on foreign ownership , the New York Times reported yesterday . |
| 14 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 15 | However , the fact that the child has language difficulties is probably a good indication that exposure to the kinds of language which enable most children to learn will not be sufficient to enable this child to make progress ; she may require adult input which is specially tailored to help compensate for particular areas of weakness . |
| 16 | The LF control raises or lowers the level below around 160Hz over a range of +4 to -6dB , making the sound correspondingly fuller or thinner ; the HF offers a similar shaping above 1kHz to help compensate for dull ( overly absorptive ) or bright ( highly reflective ) rooms . |
| 17 | Other grants made by the leisure sub-committee were : Steven Duffy , 13 , of Suffield Street , St Hilda 's , £150 for boxing strip and equipment ; Geoffrey Mullins , 38 , of Baldoon Sands , Acklam , £150 to help qualify as a senior athletics coach ; St Margaret 's Carpet Bowls Club , Brookfield , £477 to buy equipment ; Linthorpe Community Art Group , Linthorpe Community Centre , £200 for materials and equipment and Northern Sinfonia Orchestra , £250 , to help with concert expenses . |
| 18 | A trainee psychologist , played by Lambert 's wife , Diane Lane , is drafted in to help track down the real killer and — you guessed it — takes a more than passing professional interest in Sanderson . |
| 19 | A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man . |
| 20 | Such was the sense of shock and disgust that a number of RUC officers offered to work on their days off and without pay to help track down the killer . |
| 21 | They 've developed a method to help putt by pulling back the club every inch for every foot . |
| 22 | As he told Wolf he saw the mission 's task ‘ as one of formulating a constructive program of aid to help prevent in Southeast Asia a repetition of the circumstances leading to the fall of China ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But I thought you were more than happy to help clear up the unfortunate Billy 's death . |
| 24 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw V Thomas , who is acting as co-ordinator following the flood damage in the Aberconwy area , last night praised the 50 Army personnel for the work they put in during the day to help clear up the mess in the Morfa Conwy and Llandudno Junction areas . |
| 25 | ‘ Such is the progress made that they are now ready to move on to Llandudno to help clear up the mess in various houses there , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 26 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 27 | His knowledge of athletics , along with several other sports , was almost encyclopaedic , and together with fellow presenter David Coleman , he set the high standards for television coverage of athletics which have helped bring to the sport the huge audiences it enjoys today . |
| 28 | From this has come the immense development of Justice and Peace Commissions , both in Rome and throughout the Catholic world , which have greatly helped bring to fruition a whole new dimension of church life , a social activism concerned with the service of the poor , of economic justice and of genuine peace ( Paul VI later declared that ‘ Development is the new name for Peace ’ ) . |
| 29 | Both the Bishop and the parish ( St Mary 's , Avondale ) in Harare were obviously keen to have us and our visit helped confirm to us that this seems to be the Lord 's next step for us . |
| 30 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |