Example sentences of "[vb past] helped [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 2 | The incipient trade breakdown which had helped to spark the Petrograd insurrection accelerated after February . |
| 3 | In general respectability was achieved and the consequence of that was that the movies had moved somewhat decisively away from the masses that had helped to create the industry . |
| 4 | This feature of quantum mechanics proved very distasteful to some of the very men who had helped to create the subject . |
| 5 | Beecher , the paterfamilias of the well known family , had been one of the major liberalizing influences in American Puritanism ( despite his rabid anti-Catholic feelings ) and had helped to transform the old High Calvinism into the broader stream of liberal protestantism . |
| 6 | He he had been one of the principal Iranian liaisons with Kim Roosevelt and he had helped to organize the demonstrations in support of the Shah . |
| 7 | As Alvarez returned home , the Mexican Attorney General 's office called for the extradition of two DEA agents who , it alleged , had helped to organize the doctor 's abduction . |
| 8 | Later in August 52 members of the outlawed Egyptian Communist Workers ' Party ( ECWP ) were arrested ( see p. 36861 ) , some of whom were prominent members of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights ( EOHR ) , who had helped to publicise the arrests and alleged torture of workers from the Helwan plant . |
| 9 | That silver had helped to finance the fleet which won the battle of Salamis , but it was important under the empire too : the building accounts of the Propylaia , the ceremonial gateway to the Acropolis , dated 434/3 , record payments from the treasurers of a Laurion silver mine as well as from the Hellenotamiai , the treasurers of the Delian League ( ML 60 — Fornara 118B ) . |
| 10 | In 1718 he had helped to form the Society of Antiquaries in London and he had already begun his revolutionary survey work into the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles . |
| 11 | During the appeal hearing , the defence emphasized that the forensic tests which had helped to form the basis of her conviction had been discredited in a series of appeal cases , most recently that of the Birmingham Six [ see p. 38111 ] . |
| 12 | Her outburst came following the resignation of Edward Adeane , the Prince 's private secretary and a member of the family which had helped to guide the monarchy since the days of George V. |
| 13 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 14 | It rechristened the APT as the Abandoned Passenger Train and said that British technology had helped to develop the Exocet missile that sank Sheffield because the MoD , also ordering the missile from its French makers , insisted that British firms should have a share in the contract . |
| 15 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
| 16 | It was directed at ministers and social workers , and it is believed that one Orkney social worker was invited to that seminar , as well as a Baptist minister who had helped to organise the summer camp on Rousay . |
| 17 | It was alleged they had helped to organise the Castlemorton free festival . |
| 18 | She said pedestrian refuges had helped to cut the number of accidents at the southern end of Ferryhill near the Darlington road junction which as seen several fatal incidents . |
| 19 | On April 25 a committee to monitor the implementation of the pact was established , with an equal number of delegates from each side as well as representatives from Algeria , which had helped to broker the agreement . |
| 20 | In the final ceremony , chairman Paddy Ormonde paid tribute to the countless people who had helped to salvage the festival , and in particular , to St. Bartholomew 's Church and the Bart Players , who had provided a venue and services . |
| 21 | She had helped to prepare the table . |
| 22 | The Kanemaru/Takeshita faction was now being effectively managed by Ichiro Ozawa , who had been secretary-general of the LDP until April 1991 [ see pp. 38148-49 ] , and who had helped to instigate the party 's shift away from support for Kaifu during the summer and early autumn of 1991 [ see pp. 38528-29 ] . |
| 23 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 24 | In 1982 he had helped to found the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front ( UDF ) [ see also p. 33895 ] , and he was expected to remain active in politics . |
| 25 | Twelveheads was near Wesley 's revival centre at Gwennap pit ; Bray 's grandfather had been one of his converts and had helped to build the Twelveheads chapel . |
| 26 | Council expressed its appreciation to all those members who had helped to make the 150th anniversary celebrations a success . |
| 27 | These subsidies had helped to maintain the political control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in the state . |
| 28 | Hilary Fleming , Banff and Buchan 's tourism officer , said the popularity of Local Hero had helped to raise the profile of the entire north-east corner of Scotland throughout the world . |
| 29 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 30 | And while health education programmes had helped to reduce the habit among men and more affluent women , they had failed to reach females in poorer families . |