Example sentences of "call for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is that the brave telegraphist continued to tap out messages and calls for help as the roaring fire closed in around his log cabin No 30 beside the railroad track , and he was still tapping out the Morse code for ‘ end of message — 30 — end of message — 30 … ’ as the burning log cabin collapsed around him . |
| 2 | Her maternal instincts would be so strong that she would be unable to resist their calls for help and would soon approach them , pick them up individually in her mouth and place them in her bed . |
| 3 | Every day Theo hears calls for help and especially for pastors for the infant churches , which can not be met as the personnel are not available . |
| 4 | Researchers for National Breakdown said calls for help were 20 per cent higher on Friday December 13 last year than any other Friday that month . |
| 5 | How can we as Black women have any faith in a police force which refuses to acknowledge our calls for help , refuses to provide protection , and refuses to take action against those who attack us ? |
| 6 | The floods , combined with heavy snow , produced 300 calls for help to the police . |
| 7 | Any calls for help in the estuary will have to be dealt with by a second boat from Chepstow , until repairs to the Sharpness boat are complete . |
| 8 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 9 | Detectives hunting the killer who dumped a woman 's body in the loft of a guest house have renewed their calls for help in tracing the victim 's last movements . |
| 10 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |
| 11 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This call for help provokes a specific urgent reaction and interaction in the listener . |
| 14 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 15 | Qualified engineering and software support staff should be available so that a suitable person can attend the OUP site , as necessary , within eight hours of a call for help . |
| 16 | Now another Angevin had responded to the call for help . |
| 17 | If one of their underground galleries collapses , the buried ants tap out a call for help . |
| 18 | Spokesman told the News Motoring Column : ‘ On average AA members are back on the road within 62 minutes of making their call for help . ’ |
| 19 | The police response to Black women and racist attacks is determined by the same factors which affect their response to racist attacks generally : Failure to recognise racial violence/attacks as such and to act accordingly ; delays in their response to a call for help from victims of racial violence ; refusal to recognise the seriousness of a racist attack , and if arrests are made , only the minimum of charges are imposed ; avoiding responsibility for dealing with cases involving racist attacks — by advising victims to pursue civil action through the courts ; the subjecting of those who are victims of racial violence to further racial abuse ; the criminalisation of victims of racist attacks e.g. in Bradford , Newham and only recently two cases from Hounslow one involving 5 boys from Lampton School who defended themselves in a racial attack and were arrested and charged by the police . |
| 20 | The prison authorities say it was a genuine call for help . |
| 21 | It was a call for help from a man claiming to have committed serious , awful crimes . |
| 22 | By Barry Turnbull MERSEYSIDER Dot Phillips has sent out a call for help to find a missing parrot that mimics telephones . |
| 23 | Allitt trial told of quick call for help |
| 24 | PC Mark Whitehouse , on patrol with WPC Susan Larkin , had heard PC Kelly 's radio call for help . |
| 25 | PC Hay went to investigate but raced back to the patrol car after receiving a call for help from Sgt Forth over his pocket radio . |
| 26 | We had practical help too from hotels , stores and businesses in our City Centre Parish , as well as from Scotsman Publications , and we now acknowledge our gratitude to those companies who answered our call for help . |