Example sentences of "[verb] help [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 2 | A previous landlady had tried to help herself to the orange juice to put in her gin . |
| 3 | But I followed landmarks — the glade of birch saplings ; the drift of unmelted snow where Kāli had helped herself to a frozen drink : the huge pine tree whose trunk had been gouged to a tenth of its width for jharo . |
| 4 | We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family . |
| 5 | The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way . |