Example sentences of "if they [vb mod] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it . |
| 2 | finished , so I asked if they would help me to sort out the erm |
| 3 | Now she felt the need to be alone for a while in order to look over her notes and see if they would help her in her plans for the future . |
| 4 | Signs , know your traffic signs , right , signals , give signal , give signals if they would help or warn other road users watch out for the signals of other drivers and motor cyclists or pedal cyclists and take necessary action from them . |
| 5 | One of two women in the car asked if they could help me . |
| 6 | Pronouns can either become disjuncts ( he or she , her or his ) or the singular they may be used ( no one would use sexist language if they could help it ) . |
| 7 | Early on , she had learned one thing : if the poor saw you prospering they did n't deal with you if they could help it , their idea being they were n't going to give you a hand . |
| 8 | No one employed travellers if they could help it and the future looked dark . |
| 9 | Roles contacted a local cricket club , told them he wanted to photograph a bowler in action , and asked if they could help . |
| 10 | I asked the College if they could help , but was told by the then-bursar : It is College policy not to help fellows with housing . |
| 11 | IN RECOGNITION of their expertise in stainless steel welding , Enterprise Engineering Services was recently asked if they could help Woodlands School in Aberdeen . |
| 12 | The local Rentokil pest control branch were contacted to see if they could help . |
| 13 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 14 | Jean Glass and Betty Syrett would be prepared to co-ordinate if this were wanted and it would be appreciated if those teaching in London let either Betty or Jean or the office know if they could help . |
| 15 | The Edinburgh specialists were so touched by their pleas they invited the family over to Edinburgh to see if they could help the boy . |
| 16 | But it would still help if they could help with this seamless journey bit you know . |
| 17 | WE are trying to contact as many pregnant women as possible who have this condition to see if they will help by taking part . |
| 18 | I 'll give the Salvation Army a ring and see if they can help you . |
| 19 | That there will be fierce opposition to such changes is fairly certain , and there will be vociferant arguments against them , and whilst these must be listened to , they must be allowed to have influence only if they can help in the process of bringing into being the new philosophy or religion . |
| 20 | The great majority of solicitors continue in their traditional ways , making their staple living from conveyancing , probate , advising middle-class clients in minor disputes and business affairs , and litigation — though some firms prefer not to do the last if they can help it . |
| 21 | He added that " the USSR is taking part in the joint efforts to settle the conflict in Afghanistan and in this context it is ready to maintain any contacts , including with the opposition , if they can help to solve the problem " . |