Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] help me " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You ought to help me more , ’ he once complained pathetically . |
2 | You must help me now . |
3 | Please , Aunt Louise , you must help me . |
4 | Nour said , ‘ You must help me now , Margaret . ’ |
5 | ‘ You must help me to do it , ’ said Grainne , very gently . |
6 | You must help me ! ’ she begged in a voice cracking with grief and fatigue . |
7 | Per favore , you must help me just this once . ’ |
8 | Since I was imprisoned because of you , it is only common human benevolence that you should help me now . |
9 | So , if you want to stay here , you 'll help me out and if you do n't … well , we 're both in trouble . ’ |
10 | ‘ You 'll help me , wo n't you , Billy ? ’ |
11 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
12 | You 'll help me , neh ? |
13 | And you 'll help me clean up my jewellery , wo n't you ? |
14 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
15 | Be very specific in spelling out desired actions , avoid being vague ( not ‘ I wish she 'd be more helpful ’ but ‘ I wish she 'd help me with the weekend shopping ’ ) . |
16 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
17 | ‘ You said you 'd help me . |
18 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
19 | ‘ I think you 'd help me if you could , Phil . ’ |
20 | I wondered if you 'd help me out in the garden , perhaps like if it 's still nice when you come home from school ? |
21 | In fact he said to me ‘ You could be quite useful , you know , you could help me get through to her . ’ |
22 | ‘ I wonder if you could help me , ’ I said . |
23 | You could help me find out if I 've made a terrible mistake coming here , and if — ’ She took a deep breath . |
24 | ‘ I 'm not sure of my plan yet but whatever it is you could help me if you want . ’ |
25 | I was wondering if you could help me ? |
26 | ‘ Sorry , I mean I 'm pregnant and , er , you said you could help me the day after tomorrow and I wanted to know if … ’ |
27 | Dear Doctor I wonder if you could help me with a problem with my guitar sounds . |
28 | ‘ You could help me more , ’ she suggested . |
29 | ‘ You could help me dress my hair , manicure my nails . |
30 | ‘ Perhaps you could help me in some way by raising funds ? ’ he said . |