Example sentences of "[verb] for help [prep] " 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 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 4 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 5 | Police chiefs , who called a Press conference last night to appeal for help from the public , are baffled by the shooting . |
| 6 | Richard Miles ' two brothers and two uncles came to Stroud police station to appeal for help in finding Richard 's killer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A mother asked for help in rescuing her fourteen-year-old daughter from a coven . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In spite of his bitter criticism of his father , he still asked for help from him . |
| 12 | Lots of people qualify for help with their Council Tax whether it 's exemptions , discounts or rebates . |
| 13 | A job centre is praying for help from a higher power … after being asked to find work for a man of the cloth ! |
| 14 | The rules are inconsistent because , for example , pensioners are automatically exempt from prescription charges but will qualify for help with other charges only if they have low incomes . |
| 15 | When you cry for help in vain . |
| 16 | Then you can signal for help in the approved method , raising and lowering your arms slowly . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Republic , effectively abandoned by its fellow democracies , had turned for help to the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 19 | The university student had applied for help under the NHS Low Income Scheme , but said he had been assessed on a £300 loan he did not take out , which put him 39p in credit and not entitled for help . |
| 20 | A survey by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals found that a fifth of eligible students applied for help from the government-funded Access Fund last academic year . |
| 21 | The creative team , for example , who appealed for help for the starving Biafrans with the headline , " Fresh food is flying to Biafra " with a visual showing a few live locusts knew what they were doing . |
| 22 | In July 1947 he returned illegally and appealed for help to the RCM , whose representative advised him to give himself up . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Detective Superintendent Jack Leyland , leading the investigation , today appealed for help from shopkeepers in the area who may have sold the items . |
| 26 | Detective Superintendent Jack Leyland , leading the investigation , today appealed for help from shopkeepers who may have sold the items . |
| 27 | Miss Crowley then appealed for help from anyone who may have seen Ashworth in a number of locations around the city last Wednesday evening . |
| 28 | Yesterday Mr Newman 's girlfriend appealed for help in finding the person responsible for what police called the ‘ maniacal ’ killing of Mr Newman . |
| 29 | A WIDOW raped on Christmas Day as she returned home from midnight mass yesterday appealed for help in finding her attacker . |
| 30 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |