Example sentences of "help me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Fancy staying on at three-thirty and helping me paint ? " |
| 2 | In all the senses I felt that there was little support in helping me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian and ended up feeling totally alienated and with a complete loss of my self-confidence . |
| 3 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 4 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 5 | And think what good you 're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle 's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance . |
| 6 | You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks |
| 7 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 8 | The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems . |
| 9 | He wrote : ‘ Thanks for your hospitality over the past few weeks and for helping me see where I have gone wrong . ’ |
| 10 | I only want you to know that I 'm very grateful to you for helping me become Joe 's apprentice . ’ |
| 11 | Helping me look for it was keeping your brother away from Silvia . ’ |
| 12 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 13 | ‘ The practical help in developing my business plan was invaluable in focusing my idea and helping me obtain LEDU assistance ’ . |
| 14 | By fund-raising she is doing something positive towards helping me get better . |
| 15 | Of course , there 's the question of my present contract , but I feel sure I can bribe the boss into helping me get out of it without too much hassle . ’ |
| 16 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 17 | It was by placing racism and heterosexism , along with sexism , at the centre of my training work that helped me stop being nervous about challenging heterosexism . |
| 18 | He helped me shift the tea-chests |
| 19 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 20 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 21 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 22 | One of the guys at the gate helped me give the Fiasco a push . |
| 23 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 25 | She helped me dress in my new going-away outfit before I went down to say goodbye to my parents . |
| 26 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 27 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 28 | Me and your mam did one this morning , I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off |
| 29 | I 'm sure a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that helped me cope with the daily pressures of newspaper life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ But without doubt he was the greatest player I have been in the same side with and he helped me improve myself no end . |