Example sentences of "[vb past] to help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those he approached to help with finding accommodation for the orthodox children he was bringing from Germany and Austria was Mrs Annie Wolfson . |
| 2 | Sighing inwardly , Meryl bent to help . |
| 3 | When the 69-year-old woman tried to open the door he slipped round the front and pretended to help her before running off with her bag . |
| 4 | The vast majority of you said either a 486 or 486SX computer , so we 've created an Interactive Advice program tailored to help you choose the best 486 . |
| 5 | God knows the ways you found to help him fritter away his fortune . ’ |
| 6 | One of its sons came out and tried to help them inside . |
| 7 | Reluctantly , Dot slid down from the bed while Loopy Lil beamed kindly , eyes swivelling in all directions and tried to help wash Dot 's face at the wash-stand and brush her hair . |
| 8 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 9 | Mr Wakil told a news conference that the President was being held in Kabul with ‘ those who tried to help him escape ’ . |
| 10 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 11 | I tried to help out by looking at the putts , but he still did n't really need me . |
| 12 | He tried to help matters by calling through his cardboard megaphone for — ‘ the best of order there for the speaker ’ . |
| 13 | Other friends tried to help . |
| 14 | We tried to help Shanti to be pleased with her colour , to choose clothes that suited her , and to be co-operative with her over make-up and hair styles . |
| 15 | Colin and Dawn fell in love when Dawn tried to help them patch things up . |
| 16 | It is not at first clear what these people had to offer Wordsworth , though he tried to help them . |
| 17 | A 57-year-old woman who tried to help her was grabbed by the throat and had her head smashed on railings until she was nearly unconscious . |
| 18 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 19 | Her children Paula , 10 , John , eight , and Roxanne , four , tried to help her and alerted neighbours in Southwark , south London . |
| 20 | No one else tried to help Tyndale . |
| 21 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 22 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
| 23 | A schoolgirl 's ‘ fantasies ’ and the teacher who tried to help her . |
| 24 | When Parliament in 1733 passed the Molasses Act which tried to help planters in the British West Indies by imposing prohibitive duties on New England 's imports of sugar , rum , and molasses from non-British colonies , the Act was not properly enforced and Americans came to speak of its having been ‘ nullified ’ . |
| 25 | The man who held his rope and tried to help , ended up with his wife , family and job . |
| 26 | ‘ Richard tried to help one of the girls lying by the photocopier lying in a pool of blood . |
| 27 | Some tried to help the poor by removing them from their environment , others aimed to change that environment and to help families and individuals within it . |
| 28 | To read documents from French sources about space , and to meet officials of the CNES , is to acquire the impression that France tried to help Europe get its space act together ; but whenever the latter failed to meet the challenge , France did what it could regardless . |
| 29 | I can imagine there 'll be one or two unhappy people if they find out I 've even taken you walkies let alone tried to help you plug the blueness into reality . |
| 30 | Aunt Violet tried to help . |