Example sentences of "help [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 2 | Instead his working life has been devoted , as one might expect from that neck of the woods , to the shoe trade , helping build up the family firm into a multinational concern . |
| 3 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 4 | Out of season they helped build up local defences by filling sandbags . |
| 5 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 6 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 7 | Her ‘ Tale of two orphans ’ focuses on two young African elephants — Ndume and Malaika — who she helped bring up when they were brought to Daphne Sheldrick 's sanctuary following the massacre of the rest of their herd by poachers . |
| 8 | The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees . |
| 9 | ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . ) |
| 10 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 11 | Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] . |
| 12 | A management group of specialists ( including representatives of the Countryside Council for Wales , Dyfed Wildlife Trust , Otter Project Wales and RSPB Wales ) helped draw up the initial conservation plan and now guides all aspects of the management and monitoring programme . |
| 13 | There 's an appetite for Mould , which helped sell out his two recent London shows with ease . |
| 14 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 15 | During July , the entire area paid lasting tribute to an aircraft that helped open up not just this town , but hundreds like it all over Canada . |
| 16 | Big earners like John Barnes , Dean Saunders , Mark Wright , Ian Rush and Michael Thomas helped push up salaries by £2.2m . |
| 17 | After a dip caused by the 1981–83 recession , the publication of a definitive catalogue by Hans Nadelhofer helped push up prices , and by 1985 a the third ‘ Portico ’ mystery clock ( from an edition of six ) achieved a new world record of $400,000 for a Cartier piece . |
| 18 | The ability of each group to fight alongside the other ( something which depended upon a very disciplined approach ) was undoubtedly one of the main tactical developments of the fourteenth century , and was to play an important part in helping bring about a succession of English victories in battle . |
| 19 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 20 | Companies were invited to invest in the market it is considering a ‘ modest ’ contribution to help bail out those affected . |
| 21 | But independent councillor Tony Moore said : ‘ We should be looking to private business to help bail out the museum . |
| 22 | A report in the London Evening Standard stated that the chairman , David Rowland , and the chief executive , Peter Middleton , are ‘ actively considering ’ tapping international capital markets to help bail out financially strapped ‘ names ’ , the individuals whose capital supports the market . |
| 23 | Television therefore helped make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election campaign but not very interested in politics more generally . |
| 24 | These did not come from either the Tate Gallery or the Victoria and Albert Museum , the institutions with the relevant collections , but almost certainly from , among others , Agnews , the firm which , ironically , helped build up the collection in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business . |
| 26 | Cutting the mids helped knock out the troublesome frequencies , but the sound did suffer , since it 's often the mid frequencies that you need to increase at higher volumes to prevent that harsh , trebly electro-acoustic sound . |
| 27 | Gifts from them helped eke out her limited income throughout her training and over the next several years . |
| 28 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 29 | She throws in a clincher to help make up my mind : ‘ There 's half an hour before the television news starts , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Why not have a look at the Qbasic series starting this month to help make up your mind ! |