Example sentences of "could help [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no , her mother 's opinion had been , if Jessie did n't want to serve in the shops then she could help with the housework and learn to cook , and so save Maggie Rice 's half week 's wage of six and threepence , for Maggie was on what her mother called half-days , which started at eight and finished at one . |
| 2 | You could help with the scenery . ’ |
| 3 | This , incidentally , could help with the problem encountered earlier of incorporating unusual crimes such as child abuse in the postclassical perspective . |
| 4 | ‘ You could help with the jigsaw next door , if you like . |
| 5 | I could help with the housework … please , sir ! ’ |
| 6 | Michael Croggon 's studies could help save the Amazonian rain forests … but only if he can find the money to fund his own daily care . |
| 7 | Geoff , of Abram , near Wigan read about the South Donegal Railway Preservation Society and immediately contacted members to see if he could help despite the little matter of 150 miles of murky Irish Sea . |
| 8 | Roland had once asked her if he could help in the garden , in exchange for the right to sit there sometimes . |
| 9 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 10 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 11 | He could help in the attics . |
| 12 | In Chapter 10 I try to make some suggestions about the form and content of a practical politics of reproduction which could help in the mobilization of the social forces necessary for the implementation of a programme of structural social change . |