Example sentences of "[not/n't] help [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 10 , however , Japan announced that it would not help to finance debt-reduction schemes until Brazil had agreed a three-year extended facility with the IMF . |
| 2 | With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) . |
| 3 | Even Harry , who was not unaccustomed to the caprices of superiors , could not help looking astonished . |
| 4 | More stalling and spin training will not help to stop this type of accident . |
| 5 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 6 | It is not only that quantification can not help eliminate such predicates , but often we have to make use of such predicates in order to make clear that the given quantified sentence does indeed convey an ontological claim . |
| 7 | " Connection " does not help explain those occasions when the normal party alignment broke down . |
| 8 | As she worked she could not help contrasting this cheerless room with her own spare room where — had it not been impossible , she told herself quickly — John might now be lying . |
| 9 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 10 | I would hate to feel that we were taking jobs away from Leeds in the sense that er people from Leeds felt compelled to move to Harrogate to do those jobs and I would can not help feeling that elsewhere in Yorkshire , and I 'm thinking particularly of South and West Yorkshire , there are many derelict industrial sites which re need to be recycled before we |
| 11 | Hazel could not help feeling relieved that Bigwig had brought only Silver a quiet , straightforward fellow , who had not yet really found his feet among the veterans . |
| 12 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 13 | Strawberry waited politely for him to finish speaking and Hazel could not help feeling pleased that he must have heard . |
| 14 | Although everything had been done on a shoestring , she was pleased with the result — and could not help feeling pleased with his praise . |
| 15 | The tiny child 's pale blue eyes stared up at her appealingly and she could not help feeling guilty . |
| 16 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 17 | Annunciata , coming in singing with coffee , was reprimanded for causing a headache to begin on that instant and Wilson could not help feeling triumphant . |
| 18 | There was no one to discuss this strange development with and , as she saddled and bridled the eager Midnight for their ride , Nutty could not help feeling astonished by Nails 's request . |
| 19 | He was very sorry , but at the same time he could not help feeling excited by the prospect of owning a new jacket . |
| 20 | In these circumstances the analyst can not help becoming involved , particularly if he or she has elderly relatives in similar situations , and it is sometimes difficult to retain objectivity . |
| 21 | I ca n't help getting engaged on the human scale , minimal though this is , fight it though I do . |
| 22 | Er then I ca n't help getting enthusiastic about it . |
| 23 | The cast could n't help hearing odd words . |
| 24 | Once he started transmitting he could n't help using all that C.B slang , even in an emergency . |
| 25 | I suppose that you just ca n't help loving this crafty , gormless , dithering , impatient Dagenham boy done good who 's made and apparently lost millions out of being a loveable loser , a part-time winner , with a bit of a chip on his shoulder , perpetually on the edge of panic , needing to much to impress . |
| 26 | It did n't help to admit that , but for her own stupidity , she would never have come near the place . |
| 27 | She was so happy , she could n't help giving grateful thanks out loud for such a quick answer to her prayer . |
| 28 | The boy who ca n't help falling asleep . |
| 29 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
| 30 | Juliet stayed outside , but could n't help overhearing some of his responses . |