Example sentences of "not help him " in BNC.

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1 By then Richards , his England colleague and the opposition No 8 , had retired , reluctantly conceding that a troublesome right Achilles ' tendon was not helping him or the Tigers .
2 ‘ You 're not helping him by behaviour like this , ’ snapped Drew .
3 Despite my anger and despair at what had happened to Brian , killing myself now would n't make amends for not helping him .
4 Pike , aware that the bucket was not helping him , removed it .
5 I 'm not helping him .
6 The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements .
7 Going on as substitute has not helped him .
8 Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray .
9 A SUFFOLK farmer trying to recover a hoard of Romano-British bronzes , which he claims were illicitly excavated from his land , has been told that the Office of Arts and Libraries can not help him , writes Geraldine Norman .
10 She knew what he meant , but she would not help him out .
11 She did not help him .
12 But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him .
13 In any event an engineer must know his science and particularly the limitations on that knowledge but in general his scientific literacy does not help him either to design a product or to write a computer program to control the product 's function .
14 Homoeopathy did not help him either but at his third visit he commented that he did not know which came first , his sinus problem or his depression .
15 That can not help him .
16 She knew , of course , what her husband was getting at but , perversely , she did not help him out .
17 Éomer 's intervention does not help him much , for he and his companions can not decide at the end of chapter 2 whether they have seen Saruman or not .
18 His sources do not help him grasp the inconvenient fact that many young men actually enjoy warfare .
19 Constanza did not help him , or only in her way .
20 But his wisdom would not help him in this instance .
21 It will not help him to plead that he had not read the clause or was unaware of its existence .
22 And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him .
23 The hon. Gentleman has an incurable problem , so I can not help him .
24 can not help him out because they too are caught in the same conceptual framework .
25 In certain cases it might well be that the defendant 's ignorance will not help him .
26 What other situation would not help him .
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