Example sentences of "helped [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ She had enough clothes for a month , never mind a few days , ’ said one of Elizabeth 's friends , who helped them get ready for the trip . |
| 32 | This helped them to gain height and get power when heading the ball . |
| 33 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 34 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 35 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 36 | After a while a fallen log helped them across the ditch . |
| 37 | They repeatedly demanded that their mothers played with them , gave them things , and helped them but their mothers rarely complied . |
| 38 | It helped them keep their end up in battle , too , claim historians . |
| 39 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 40 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 41 | Only after many years of mental torment did some Calvinists achieve a certainty of conviction about their elect status , which helped them to cope with , and sometimes to change , the threatening and disturbing world that surrounded them . |
| 42 | The industry 's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests , but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall . |
| 43 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 44 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 45 | Not only did this process of consultation demonstrate that the Council was in charge of its own proceedings , but it brought the bishops together and helped them to get to know one another . |
| 46 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 47 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 48 | According to Martha Fitzgerald , a spokesperson for the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents ( SOAR ) , ‘ The museum is cavalierly ignoring the terms of the $99 ninety-nine year lease the community helped them achieve ’ . |
| 49 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 50 | In the antique firearms section there was a pair of pistols fitted with a detonating system which used fulminate and dated from about 1809 ; there was an intriguing possible English royal connection and this , together with their unusual detonation , helped them sell at £5,000 . |
| 51 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
| 52 | But we helped them by suggesting |
| 53 | She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters . |
| 54 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 55 | Words helped them , apparently . |
| 56 | She helped the little ones to get washed and dressed ; she helped them to play and draw and read . |
| 57 | Elinor believed that her novels provided her readers with excitement , helped them to escape from insecurity and anxiety , frustration and drudgery , misery and sorrow , and of course , the boring daily routine of a life in which nothing was likely to change . |
| 58 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 59 | The English porters , who are generally friendly , helped them to find their luggage : brown paper parcels and cardboard boxes and suitcases tied together with string . |
| 60 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |