Example sentences of "[vb past] for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 2 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 3 | Families were major beneficiaries of the single payments system , which provided one-off payments as a matter of entitlement to claimants who qualified for help . |
| 4 | The Sultan , who had treaty relations with Britain , asked for help . |
| 5 | But I had informed the police and asked for help even before the doorbell rang . |
| 6 | Penny asked for help but could n't bring herself to explain the cause of her depression . |
| 7 | A mother asked for help in rescuing her fourteen-year-old daughter from a coven . |
| 8 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 9 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 10 | They stood by while the policeman asked for help as he was being punched . ’ |
| 11 | At about 0500 on 18 October 1990 Ballycastle was under severe threat from rising flood water and Fire Brigade Headquarters asked for help in evacuating people stranded in the area . |
| 12 | If students asked for help too often , marks were deducted . |
| 13 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 14 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 15 | I could have gone to the authorities , he thought , asked for help . |
| 16 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 17 | Of 1200 families who asked for help in 1991 , 56 percent of marriages are breaking down , 55 percent are depressed , 39 percent are drinking too much , and one in five is abusing their partner . |
| 18 | The Prince of Wales asked for help |
| 19 | Last year , in response to a request from South Africa 's Bishop of Kimberley , three Carmelite nuns in Germany , knowing Darlington 's links with South Africa , contacted the convent and asked for help . |
| 20 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 21 | They shouted for help . |
| 22 | My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help . |
| 23 | He raged at the futility of it , and shouted for help as his blade hissed and crunched , but his arms were tiring and he could feel blood running down inside his tunic . |
| 24 | Yesterday Mr Newman 's girlfriend appealed for help in finding the person responsible for what police called the ‘ maniacal ’ killing of Mr Newman . |
| 25 | In July 1947 he returned illegally and appealed for help to the RCM , whose representative advised him to give himself up . |
| 26 | A WIDOW raped on Christmas Day as she returned home from midnight mass yesterday appealed for help in finding her attacker . |
| 27 | Feeling himself threatened , Peter appealed for help to Edward III who authorised the Black Prince , since 1362 prince ( and effective ruler ) of Aquitaine , to intervene . |
| 28 | In it Richard appealed for help : |
| 29 | This was not , however , accepted either by the English or by the Pope , to whom Edward repeatedly appealed for help . |
| 30 | With his whole political position in western Toulouse crumbling , Raymond again appealed for help to his overlord , King Philip , and this time his appeal was answered . |