Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening his mouth to cry for help , he — ! |
| 2 | She was murdered by the side of the M50 in Worcestershire as she walked from her car to call for help . |
| 3 | As she wound down her window to scream for help , one of the youths then tried to drag her from her car . |
| 4 | Dawn Niblock ( 17 ) , Upper Sixth , wants to study politics with languages : ‘ I have never approached a teacher to ask for help and been passed on to someone else . |
| 5 | Mr Pinder has written to the town 's prospective parliamentary candidates in the hope that they will pursue the matter , and has contacted Hartlepool Access Group to ask for help . |
| 6 | the confidence to ask for help , |
| 7 | Police chiefs , who called a Press conference last night to appeal for help from the public , are baffled by the shooting . |
| 8 | Richard Miles ' two brothers and two uncles came to Stroud police station to appeal for help in finding Richard 's killer . |
| 9 | When a conductor spilt a cup of boiling water over Mrs Allason 's mother there was neither a first aid box on board nor a phone to call for help . |
| 10 | I was all alone in my flat , so I crawled to my phone and rung a friend to beg for help . |
| 11 | The strain of conducting frontier warfare against the French and their Indian allies , without assistance from the south , forced the Massachusetts assembly to ask for help from England in terms that showed a reasonable willingness to co-operate with policy laid down in London . |
| 12 | For the first time ever , the RUC bought air time on Ulster Television to appeal for help . |
| 13 | Driven out in March , they returned in massive numbers in June , this time from the north as well as the east and after Nicholas had obliged the Austrian Emperor to beg for help in person . |
| 14 | ‘ It is a sign of weakness to ask for help . ’ |
| 15 | I was terrified — both of leaving him and also of not leaving him , in order to go for help . |
| 16 | Joining a tenant 's association or local community group can be an effective and powerful way to lobby for help and contribute towards good crime prevention practice . |
| 17 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 18 | A gentleman from Peebles called our phone-in to ask for help with whitefly on his fuchsias , and Carole was able to offer some advice . |
| 19 | He had no time to call for help on his radio because , even as he saw him , the man rushed forward , the machete held high above his head . |
| 20 | I realise that this is a bad time to ask for help in any professional and academic matter , but in the light of cutbacks and recommendations from reports like the Swann Report it is important that we are clear about the provision of language education for future teachers . |