Example sentences of "[vb past] help [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after the collapse of the communist bloc , funds promised to help cleanse the environment of Eastern Europe are still tied up in banks and many aid pledges have evaporated , The European reported . |
| 2 | The health benefits of eating salmon add to its attraction : low in calories and saturated fat , it is an excellent source of minerals , vitamins , protein — and natural fish oil , believed to help reduce the risk of heart disease . |
| 3 | Scores of patients came to help launch the Russell-Cairns Unit named after 2 Oxford doctors who led the way in head injury treatment . |
| 4 | Indeed , the average was pulled down by lumpy short-term payments made to help finance the early development of North Sea oil [ Sargent , 1979 ] . |
| 5 | Any decorator asked to help design a room for a client would start by asking certain obvious questions . |
| 6 | On the one hand it expressed its unease , recalling the need for a comprehensive solution which ‘ must translate into fact the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland ’ , but on the other hand certain members of the Community — Britain , Italy , the Netherlands and France — agreed to help implement the treaty militarily . |
| 7 | A man cursed at Sharpe , then went to help harness a thin mule to the cart . |
| 8 | This blunted the edge of their potential impact , though the steady rise in factor prices to nearer market levels in later years did help propel the BEA into more adventurous policies to achieve capital economies and improved fuel efficiencies . |
| 9 | TV arguably did help kill the News Chronicle in that way , and perhaps the London evening press . |
| 10 | Prior to the ceremony the railway 's guests were entertained to lunch at the Raven Inn where W & L chairman Ken Fenton told the guests of the station 's history and paid tribute to the people and organisations who had helped bring the former Eardisley station building up from its former site . |
| 11 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 12 | For thirty years a charity , financed in part from police pay , had helped supplement the clothing of the city poor . |
| 13 | Anyway , as they were summer clothes , and it had been the start of winter , that had helped make the decision an easy one . |
| 14 | The chairperson adjusted the microphone The assembly whispered into silence : she welcomed everyone , introduced the people on the stage , including two members of the local Trades Council who had helped sponsor the meetings , and introduced the evening 's main speaker , Lesley Wright . |
| 15 | His East German counterpart Lothar de Maizière ) , who was in Hungary to commemorate the 1989 East German exodus through the open Austria-Hungary border which had helped topple the East German communist regime , promised trilateral Hungarian , East German and West German talks on the issue . |
| 16 | The WHO 's expanded programme of immunization ( EPI ) , launched in 1974 , had helped prevent an estimated 2,200,000 deaths yearly from measles , neonatal diseases , tetanus and pertussis , as well as some 360,000 cases of poliomyelitis . |
| 17 | In fact she was following her husband 's wishes that those who had helped create a fortune should now inherit it . |
| 18 | Probably everything in the personality of the showmen and in the nature of business activity itself made it likely that the motion-picture industry would go in search of better audiences but this development was encouraged by a strange mixture of attitudes towards that original working-class audience that had helped create the industry . |
| 19 | A report by a commission of church historians published on Jan. 6 claimed that high-level French Roman Catholic clergy had helped protect the suspected war criminal Paul Touvier for almost 45 years during which he succeeded in winning a brief pardon in 1971 . |
| 20 | Before she married Ted Castle , Barbara had an affair with William Mellor , a married man who had helped form the Socialist League . |
| 21 | The Orrell man , who was such a key player in England 's Grand Slam last year , had helped inspire a superb North effort to end what small chance London had of taking the Divisional title . |
| 22 | The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries . |
| 23 | Bill , Carol Andrew 's husband , died earlier this month but had helped organise the concert . |
| 24 | Despite explanations that the various options had been carefully considered in advance in anticipation of a disappointing ballot result , her action was seen as yet further evidence of the style of government which had helped precipitate the leadership crisis . |
| 25 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |
| 26 | Larkin has told how Lawrence was one of his favourite novelists when he was young , along with Isherwood , Maugham and Waugh , and many in and after the Second World War were to ponder the strange , radical genius of famed humility of social origin and ambiguous political stance who had helped keep the realistic spirit alive and potent in an age when its intellectual prestige stood low . |
| 27 | The fact that Mondrian had painted over the back of the canvas had helped keep the painting in particularly fine condition . |
| 28 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 29 | Alan Bloom , who had helped implement the scene described by Ennion , and was unusual in being both a practical man and a writer , published The Farm in the Fen in 1944 . |
| 30 | The Martini had helped free the Flemish lady from Zacco . |