Example sentences of "for help but " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 3 | Penny asked for help but could n't bring herself to explain the cause of her depression . |
| 4 | The inhabitants were on the upper floors calling for help but , before anything could be done for them , the houses disintegrated and the people were all lost in the flood . |
| 5 | The policeman radioed for help but the machete man was never found . |
| 6 | CRYING out for help but for a different reason the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway are seeking volunteers from among the enthusiast fraternity . |
| 7 | I suppose I should have just gone and begged for help but Shallot has his pride . |
| 8 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 9 | He was being waltzed around by his captives and he bellowed for help but his colleagues had their own problems . |
| 10 | Possibly they had all gone off looking for help but I found the child and I cradled the child round my neck with some sort of rag and headed off back to Basra . |
| 11 | ‘ He was crying out for help but no one was listening , ’ his mother said . |
| 12 | Police called for help but the prisoner was certified dead at the scene . |
| 13 | Latvia , in common with other former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union , is looking to the West not only for help but ideas as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy and create a better way of life in a society which has not been used to making decisions for itself . |