Example sentences of "a [noun] for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | This extends to the appointment of ancillary and technical staff , who would be expected to have the same sympathetic qualities , and to making a case for help from the authority 's teaching and support services or for a welfare assistant to help with an individual pupil . |
| 2 | He picked it up and carried it a mile across a field for help . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A CHARITY which provides holidays for underprivileged children has issued a plea for help . |
| 6 | We need some help and all we 're asking for is a grant for help |
| 7 | But , in the final analysis , if you ca n't get any help , if he wo n't refer you to a specialist for help change your doctor ! |
| 8 | Two professions and a need for help |
| 9 | The choice relies heavily upon administratively established convention — ‘ normal ways ’ — as a device for help in determining any case at hand . |
| 10 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |
| 11 | Afterwards , everybody asked themselves : Was it a cry for help ? |
| 12 | If your dog has n't presented a problem for years , is getting old but still appears to be healthy , and starts to display antisocial behaviour — check it out with your vet before you start to punish him or her for what might be a cry for help . |
| 13 | I suppose underneath it was a cry for help . |
| 14 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 15 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 16 | that the riots were ‘ a lust for blood ’ , an ‘ orgy of thieving ’ , ‘ a cry for loot and not a cry for help ’ ; |
| 17 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 18 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 19 | A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders . |
| 20 | ‘ It wass n't a cry for help I heard . |
| 21 | The deep-rooted need to express grief is part of all religions and perhaps the Protestant churches should see these notices as a cry for help . |
| 22 | The first two could be a threat and a cry for help . |
| 23 | They are often a cry for help . |
| 24 | It was there where , in a fit of depression , she hurled herself down the stairs in a cry for help . |
| 25 | Deanes says it 's a cry for help . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This was a cry for help , a last desperate throw of the dice to woo back his wife , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 27 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |
| 28 | Some would say it was a cry for help . |
| 29 | ‘ But it does seem like a cry for help . |
| 30 | She came up once and tried to get out a cry for help to the others standing there , but the laughing gripped her lungs and they thought she was fooling . |