Example sentences of "[v-ing] for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after phoning for help that Lizzie thought about what happened to her sister . |
| 2 | Balor was bellowing for help ; he was calling down vengeance on the Trees and promising that Inchbad and the Robemaker and the Master CuRoi would certainly punish the Trees for this . |
| 3 | A job centre is praying for help from a higher power … after being asked to find work for a man of the cloth ! |
| 4 | Lazaris uses the following analogy : Imagine that you hear a little voice squeaking for help . |
| 5 | Over the tops of the heads Jess stared at her , hunting for help that she knew would never come . |
| 6 | Maria was last seen shouting for help inside a military jeep that evening . |
| 7 | In this revised and comforting version there had been a second of delay , no more , and then he had raced for the house shouting for help . |
| 8 | It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank . |
| 9 | Family friend Kenneth Duke said : ‘ I could hear Claire shouting for help . |
| 10 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 11 | She was on the point of shouting for help . |
| 12 | Oliver jumped to his feet and ran wildly from the room , shouting for help . |
| 13 | He recalled how on one occasion when on a sea rescue in the English Channel a person obviously in fear of drowning was shouting for help . |
| 14 | The alarm was raised by a passer-by who heard one of the youngsters , clinging to rocks , shouting for help . |
| 15 | Mr Friel had staggered back towards his friend 's house and they had heard him shouting for help . |
| 16 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 17 | I 'll remember the rogues too , and their incredible ability to tell tall stories when looking for help . |
| 18 | I 'm writing with regard to a letter from Andy Mitchell from Ashington ( Aug ‘ 92 ) , who was looking for help in the preamp/processor direction , and was looking for the Eddie Van Halen , Brian May and the Nuno Bettencourt sounds for his processor . |
| 19 | The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) . |
| 20 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 21 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 22 | The Duchess was desperately looking for help . |
| 23 | We are looking for help in developing our sales , promotion and marketing . |
| 24 | to go running around looking for help . |
| 25 | Such people are looking for help , not hindrance , from the Government . |
| 26 | She was looking for help , advice , that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 27 | One is for Flowers for the Altar , one for St. Anthony which is given to the poor who come looking for help at various times of the day and night , and the third is for Sending a Sick Child to Lourdes , the cost of which is approximately £350 . |
| 28 | I 'm looking for help on getting into a couple of matches — can anyone help ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THE SAMARITANS on Merseyside are looking for help to run the service from their Clarence Street , Liverpool , base . |