Example sentences of "and helped [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long whips of hawthorn arched over and helped to shut out the barely lightening sky . |
| 2 | The network of family connections in Italy , though not in itself either a reason or motive for the policy which Napoleon III was to pursue in the peninsula , was nevertheless a help in that it did provide a useful information service and helped to create a feeling of sympathy for French policy . |
| 3 | However , the increasing commercialisation of the game cut across football 's working class origins and helped to create a situation in which football violence was common . |
| 4 | For example , the reshaping of absolute monarchies into liberal constitutional regimes across much of Europe in Marx and Engels ' lifetimes reflected the imperatives of industrialization , since constitutionalism ( temporarily ) fostered stable capital accumulation , increased the rate of technical change , and helped to create a trained and compliant workforce . |
| 5 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 6 | The reunification of Russia coincided with and helped to sustain a century of relative prosperity which lasted into the 1560s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My father then received a letter from my Troop Officer telling him that I had managed to shoot down two Junker 52 's and helped to sink a landing craft ’ . |
| 9 | Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy , god of the Nile , a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head ; Taurt , a hippopotamus goddess , connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth ; and Bes , an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion 's mane and tail carrying knives , who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child . |
| 10 | Some , too , entered the services of Charles of Navarre and helped to spread disorder in Normandy and the surrounding areas . |
| 11 | Calling the tour a " complete success " , Li told embassy staff in Bangkok that the visit had raised China 's international prestige , strengthened understanding with ASEAN , and helped to promote a solution to the Cambodian problem . |
| 12 | Louis Agassiz , then the world authority on fossil fish , studied Miller 's specimens and helped to describe some of them . |
| 13 | Accordingly , when the development of deaf education gave rise to controversy , missioners were on the side of the deaf and dumb , supported their aspirations and helped to argue their case . |
| 14 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 15 | He campaigned against the war itself and against military and industrial conscription , and helped to organize the early rent strikes in 1915–16 . |
| 16 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 17 | The reader feels , after reading them , as if he/she had followed Theseus into the labyrinth , faced the Minotaur and helped to slay the beast , then followed the clew back into the outside world . |
| 18 | He was chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson ( later Baron Davidson of Lambeth , q.v. ) from 1911 and helped to revise the coronation service , but was not closely involved in church affairs . |
| 19 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 20 | If only I could have gone out there and helped to put matters right . |
| 21 | These people and a host of others provided ideas and helped to put them into effect ; the guiding hand and political boss was Franklin Roosevelt himself . |
| 22 | The status which it gave him as a disinherited lord led him to oppose the Anglo-Scottish truce of 1323 and helped to persuade him to turn his coat shortly afterwards . |
| 23 | Lastly , where the LDDC has belatedly entered into ‘ agreements ’ with local authorities , such as with Newham and Tower Hamlets , and helped to set up training schemes like SKILLNET , designed to improve the skill levels of local communities , it has had little impact so far on getting local people into Docklands jobs . |
| 24 | They left and helped to set up a competitive operation within the kilometre circle . |
| 25 | In 1986 , she moved to Matagalpa , and helped to set up projects with women whose menfolk were killed in the war . |
| 26 | This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director . |
| 27 | Furthermore , since " the common unaided senses of man are not equal to the realisation of the world " , education should provide the means by which the " dull superficial sight of the multitude " can be " illuminated and helped to penetrate in the direction of reality " . |
| 28 | This was a boost to my ego and helped to offset the ever-present dread of getting the chop from Halton . |
| 29 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 30 | He served on important committees and helped organize the United Colonies of New England , a confederation of the Massachusetts , Connecticut , New Haven , and Plymouth colonies . |