Example sentences of "helped [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 2 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 3 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 4 | Oxford , without the services of Mike Spracklen , whose subtle genius as finishing coach helped them to victories for the previous five races , have Pat Sweeney , a regular Oxford coach since 1988 , in charge . |
| 5 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 6 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 7 | It certainly helped them look economic on paper . |
| 8 | The secret of Jesus ' great kindness to people was that he helped them and yet always gave them space to be themselves . |
| 9 | In fact , it was an ‘ A ’ team player who helped them towards a good victory over highly placed Malshanger on Wednesday last week . |
| 10 | The weekly team talks improved their motivation and heightened their involvement , and weekly rounds of golf helped them to relax . |
| 11 | The initial interview indicated that they knew little about their drugs and 20% admitted to having a problem , some relying on others to sort them out ; some evolving a system which helped them ; and others omitting to take the drugs altogether . |
| 12 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 13 | Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship . |
| 14 | He joined Ipswich Town , for whom he made over 150 appearances , helped them to gain League status and re-appeared at Selhurst Park with them in 1938–39 , and then again after the war . |
| 15 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 16 | The therapist helped them to agree to carry out mutual tasks which were that they would spend one day out together during the next weekend and visit a friend together on another day during the week . |
| 17 | She also elicited the views of the students about the way ward organisation helped them to learn . |
| 18 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 19 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 20 | The ancient fraternity of the printing trade , with its complex hierarchy of ‘ chapels ’ ( union branches ) , helped them . |
| 21 | As soon as McMahon helped them solve that ( his computations backed the coach , who said the track should be banked as high as his belt buckle at the outside of the turn ) , they called him back with another question : how springy should they make the track ? |
| 22 | The area has encouraged entrepreneurs and investors since the late 1930s when engineering professor , Frederick Terman , the acknowledged ‘ father of Silicon Valley ’ , attracted engineers and scientists from the east and helped them find money for their work . |
| 23 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 24 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 25 | I went back to the dining car to find Oliver and Cathy laying the tables for dinner , and I helped them automatically , although they said I need n't . |
| 26 | I got to my feet and helped them , and Nell with teasing amusement watched me fold pink napkins into water lilies and said , ‘ Well , well , hidden depths , ’ and I answered , ‘ You should see my dishwashing , ’ which were the sort of infantile surface remarks of something we both guessed might suddenly become serious . |
| 27 | Delaney and Forster reached Lawton who helped them one at a time into the boat . |
| 28 | The cyclists carried a letter of introduction from Bishop Brewer which helped them secure accommodation at a few churches along the way , including the Cathedrals at Assisi and Chartres . |
| 29 | Their faith — the couple both came into full communion with the Church in later life — helped them see that they had not ‘ lost ’ Benedict , but ‘ handed him over . ’ |
| 30 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |