Example sentences of "he helped [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air left Penry 's lungs with an audible hiss as he helped disentangle her , his square white teeth biting into his lower lip when she stood naked in front of him , hands behind her back as she eyed him diffidently . |
| 2 | Building upon the experience which he gained as Malevich 's assistant at the National Institute for Artistic Culture in Leningrad in 1923–26 , when he helped to create the master 's ‘ Analytic Tables ’ , Rozhdestwjenski directed his talent towards the decorative arts , designing books and advertisements , painting porcelain , and creating , with Nikolai Suetin , the Soviet Pavilion for the World Exhibitions held in Paris in 1938 and in New York in 1939 . |
| 3 | He was nonetheless a key figure in setting up Britain 's statutory system of buildings conservation , when he helped to create that invaluable archive the National Buildings Record ( now shortly to be banished to Swindon from its present sensible location next to English Heritage ) , which he joined as deputy director in 1941 . |
| 4 | He helped to create the idea of a modern movement with his own " difficult " poetry , and then assisted at its burial . |
| 5 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 6 | It features characters from the dance-halls , bars , brothels and circuses of Paris , some of whom he helped to promote through his posters . |
| 7 | Until he died at Hawarden , Flintshire , 8 January 1933 he helped organize the St Deiniol 's Library of Henry , Baron Gladstone of Hawarden . |
| 8 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 9 | True , he had to make distracting , bread-winning forays away from it but then , with glad and hastening steps , he returned to the true centre of his life , the children whom he helped to feed and bath and dress and play with , even cook for , in domestic servantless days like these . |
| 10 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 11 | Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments . |
| 12 | ‘ Ace Barton not only killed my son , he helped to ruin him . |
| 13 | From there he went to Sion House , Middlesex , where he helped to plant the new conservatory . |
| 14 | Prince Charles first stayed with Mr MacKillop on a secret trip in 1987 when he helped to plant potatoes , cut peat and dip sheep . |
| 15 | He helped suppress the Matabele rising in 1896 , and learned the elements of scouting and intelligence gathering . |
| 16 | He helped to reorganize the local golf course so that students could play legally and cheaply . |
| 17 | SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although he helped to form the National Deaf and Dumb Society , he was also to be the main reason for its demise . |
| 20 | In 1935 he helped to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company , and thus facilitated the development of the Hurricane aircraft which fought in the Battle of Britain ( 1940 ) . |
| 21 | However , his indisposition was short-lived for in the foursomes later he helped return the lowest gross of 96 , being runners-up to the Club 's Captain and Miss E. Simmons . |
| 22 | I had been thrilled by Rider Haggard 's stories about the Zulus , especially Nada the Lily in which Mbopo , the blind witchdoctor , tells of the rise and death of Chaka whom he helped to murder . |
| 23 | Between then and 1987 he helped grow the business from three hotels to 63 , becoming managing director of the hotel division in 1985 . |
| 24 | He helped to draft the Grand Remonstrance reciting the chief points of the king 's misgovernment ( November 1641 ) , and forced his ‘ entire friend ’ William Strode to seek sanctuary in the City when the king came to arrest the ‘ five members ’ ( 4 January 1642 ) . |
| 25 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you saying Mills was a traitor , that he helped to mislead us into thinking WIN was genuine ? ’ |
| 27 | She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them . |
| 28 | For all his coinciding with the world of fashion , with the glamour and risks of the pederasty he helped publicise , Mapplethorpe 's pictures remain alien to the canons of American good taste and to meat-and-potato American ideas about art . |
| 29 | Neither during his lifetime nor subsequently did Sisley 's paintings achieve the popularity of those of Monet , Renoir , or even Camille Pissarro , with all of whom he helped to forge the Impressionist style . |
| 30 | He helped to negotiate the merger in 1900 with the Castle line of Sir Donald Currie [ q.v . ] . |