Example sentences of "[noun sg] for help " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We need some help and all we 're asking for is a grant for help
2 offer an opportunity for help where work has deteriorated
3 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 .
4 When these come to the attention of colleagues , there is an obligation to point the nurse in the right direction for help .
5 They responded eagerly to the plea for help from their re-attached and perhaps rather intimidated kinsmen .
6 ‘ Will you help run the lucky dip stall at the summer fayre from 1 pm until 3.30pm ? ’ is more likely to get a positive answer than a general plea for help with the summer fayre .
7 Marines raced from mine-clearing operations in Hoddur following a radio plea for help from the NBC crew as looters surrounded them .
8 A note blaming social services chiefs for ignoring their plea for help was on the dashboard .
9 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 .
10 In a small town in Surrey an old woman 's plea for help leads to an unsettling encounter
11 As well as not being insensitive , he was by no means impervious to the sudden plea for help from a young and attractive lady .
12 It was almost as if he 'd reached out to clasp her hand in his plea for help , and she knew she 'd wanted to give him a lift .
13 Bootle MP Joe Benton sent an urgent message to Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine in a last ditch plea for help .
14 Plea for help after mother grabs boy
15 THE Princess of Wales yesterday made an impassioned plea for help in stopping the ‘ terrible waste of young lives ’ caused by homelessness .
16 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 .
17 A CHARITY which provides holidays for underprivileged children has issued a plea for help .
18 The Princess Royal yesterday made an impassioned plea for help on behalf of the country 's six million carers .
19 The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule .
20 The parish council decided on Monday to ask English Heritage for help in funding the repairs .
21 Mrs June Goodier , one of the organisers , said they were delighted with the response for help to run the show .
22 Enid was 47 , married with three children at home , and was referred to the social worker by her GP for help with her depression .
23 Add in the Department of Trade and Industry 's negative report on manufacturing in Britain , and the enthusiasm for help with investment becomes clear .
24 When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition .
25 The Greeks could not forgive this outrage and when , during the fifteenth century , they repeatedly asked the West for help against the Ottoman Turks , the Latins were decidedly lukewarm in their response .
26 With such a man as their representative , Albanians can only look to the West for help before it is too late .
27 Get set for the Kielder Classic , the final race in the Moore Large Series of mountain biking events which have been raising money for Help the Aged throughout the year .
28 If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid
29 He picked it up and carried it a mile across a field for help .
30 And she smiled at Raynor and saw him smile back , and felt renewed and restored , and understood how it was that Bec and the others came to Raynor for help .
  Next page