Example sentences of "[noun pl] help [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existing clients helped us to raise the money and went round their relatives . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards the rebels asked for US troops to help them to defend the routes to the military headquarters they had seized . |
| 3 | Such abstract typologies help us to understand the behaviour of councillors as a group but they do not necessarily apply to individual councillors who may exhibit characteristics drawn from several of the main types . |
| 4 | Our awareness of these other dimensions helps us to correct the conservative , status quo -maintaining bias which functionalism so readily fosters and which , if unchecked , can seriously distort our assessment and understanding of the dynamic forces animating particular societies . |
| 5 | These studies help us to understand the coupling between magnetosphere and ionosphere , and complex natural phenomena such as the aurora . |
| 6 | All the girls helped her to get the fire going , spread the tablecloth , put out the cups and plates , laughing and whispering and bustling about as they showed her the places and secrets of the kitchen , the room that was now her room . |
| 7 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |