Example sentences of "[vb mod] help [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the right water conditions and set-up they should be reasonably easy to breed , and a protein rich diet should help bring them into spawning condition . |
| 2 | This should help motivate you to maintain your change . |
| 3 | They were Bosnians who ‘ volunteered ’ to leave their homes and live somewhere else , they said , and the UN should help transfer them . |
| 4 | They 'll help row us back , if we save them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A drink 'll help cool you down . ’ |
| 6 | Well you ought to drink something , it 'll bring your temperature down and it 'll help make you feel better . |
| 7 | He pointed to Unix International as a forum for limiting the damage caused by arguments over technology , and said that the UI RoadMap of future Unix developments would be broadened to encompass technology from other member companies aside from USL itself : ‘ It 'll help keep them honest ’ . |
| 8 | Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it . |
| 9 | Most importantly , Rose had lost motivation to help herself and achieve progress , and no one around her could help restore it . |
| 10 | Artificial holts could help tempt them back , much like a garden bird box . |
| 11 | Artificial holts could help tempt them back , much like a garden bird box |
| 12 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 13 | Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil . |
| 14 | The London Titfords made silk in Spitalfields ; and a draper cousin could help sell it for them . |
| 15 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 16 | The head of a training department for a big bank in the City of London recently asked me if I could help find him suitable conference locations . |
| 17 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 18 | We were looking for anybody who could help fill it . |
| 19 | The challenge was to plan and implement a strategy which would help give them jobs , to ensure that potential employers were aware of this trained workforce and knew how to gain access to it . |
| 20 | The mild drug in the liquid would help calm him — would make him sleep until the shock of his ordeal had passed . |
| 21 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 22 | The young Principal , with a tact that would help ensure he remained a ‘ high flyer ’ , had suggested that he should take first luncheon if that were agreeable to the Minister , and had disappeared . |
| 23 | All the clan from six to sixty were up on the hill before dawn , ready to drive the deer that would help feast them . |
| 24 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |
| 25 | Jennie told Katharine to ask and then give , which would help soften him — and it did . |
| 26 | We knew that Frank got on better with us than he had with his fellow countrymen and hoped that being with us would help bring him back to himself . |
| 27 | He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain . |
| 28 | Quite simply , such an additional demand for the currencies concerned would help keep them at a higher level , with a consequent reduction in their export surpluses . |
| 29 | Asquith ‘ rather took for granted ’ , Stamfordham confided to the Archbishop of Canterbury , ‘ that the Conservatives would help keep him in office , although without any agreement ’ . |
| 30 | His church urgently needs repair , and compulsory membership fees would help keep it out of debt . |