Example sentences of "helped [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farther into the light at gallery level are sculptures of those who helped build the cathedral : Charles IV , his mother , his third and fourth wives and his son , the two architects including the self-portrait of Peter Parler , the master masons and three archbishops . |
| 2 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 3 | Out of season they helped build up local defences by filling sandbags . |
| 4 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 5 | The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers . |
| 6 | Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] helped build a new meeting-room above Stringer 's laboratory in Blackfriars . |
| 7 | Malins also helped build the order overseas , particularly in Sweden and Norway . |
| 8 | But together , they 've come up with this ; a life-size bronze statue of a railway navvy , typical of the hundreds who helped build the Chiltern Line at the start of the century . |
| 9 | remember that digger daddy had when I helped build the run ? |
| 10 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 11 | On the death of Charles James Fox [ q.v. ] in 1806 , Creevey became dissatisfied with the party 's leaders , and his attacks on the Grenvilles helped weaken Whig unity . |
| 12 | The nuclear programme has not only not exceeded the country 's investment capacity : it has , as we shall see later , helped to sustain economic activity in hard times . |
| 13 | It was in this way that YTS helped to sustain an individualistic and divisive work ethic . |
| 14 | The reunification of Russia coincided with and helped to sustain a century of relative prosperity which lasted into the 1560s . |
| 15 | No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people . |
| 16 | But the spectre of international Fascism , the Nazi invasion , and the herculean efforts of the Red Army in driving Hitler 's forces back to Berlin helped to sustain the USSR 's image as the standard bearer of the forces of the Left . |
| 17 | It was the steady flow of student and ex-student recruits which brought into being and helped to sustain the radical circles , organizations and nation-wide parties of the revolutionary underground . |
| 18 | Although modest in their poetic achievement , they helped to sustain the tenuous thread of the Slovene literary language which led back to Trubar . |
| 19 | A part of the ideology of ‘ muddling through ’ was an acceptance of pragmatism in social policy , even a glorying in it , which helped to sustain a distrust of too much expertise , particularly in a scientific field . |
| 20 | For Charlotte ( she of the pills and bread knife ) , good friends and blind faith were the main factors which helped to cope . |
| 21 | As symbols of dominance , these displays demanded a spectacular setting , and soon every great city of the industrialized world possessed a museum whose cathedral-like setting helped to confirm the role that science had usurped as the source of moral authority in the modern world . |
| 22 | Fortunately for the evolutionists , there were important discoveries during the 1860s and 1870s that helped to confirm their prediction that such ‘ missing links ’ were merely hidden by the imperfection of the fossil record . |
| 23 | In three of these cases referred with a probable diagnosis of achalasia , however , the absence of peristalsis in the body of the oesophagus helped to confirm the diagnosis . |
| 24 | As we 've already seen , the very high tax rates under the Labour Government helped to kill enterprise . |
| 25 | I was due in court in a few days to begin divorce proceedings and the threat of Johnny ‘ B ’ helped to dilute the worry . |
| 26 | He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds . |
| 27 | The power of Labour in the War Cabinet helped to channel the energies of radical activists into support for the People 's War . |
| 28 | He helped to reorganize the local golf course so that students could play legally and cheaply . |
| 29 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 30 | Her unusually youthful looks meant Kylie could play a girl four years her junior and her portrayal of the spirited 12-year-old Charlene helped make The Henderson Kids a hit in Australia . |