Example sentences of "it helps [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it helps her to get it out . |
| 2 | ‘ When Martina is tense it helps her to relax ’ and ‘ A textbook shot there from Nastase — nobody can improvise better . ’ |
| 3 | But if it helps her pass the time without thinking of the baby … |
| 4 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 5 | Anticipating the problem does not make it any less likely to occur , but planning and preparing for it helps one to cope with it , and will emphasize that professional and consistent judgment has been exercised . |
| 6 | It helps one bid rationally , and more coherently , for congenial responsibilities , and therefore to feel more powerful and less resigned about the way these are distributed . |
| 7 | Used as in this instance , it helps one to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 8 | Also it helps one in practice for voting . |
| 9 | Having done the job myself , it helps me to understand that departments are being asked to review everything continuously . |
| 10 | It helps me think of them . ’ |
| 11 | I 've always loved cleaning , it helps me to think and stops me getting ideas above my station . |
| 12 | The superstar guitarist , still grieving over the loss of his son who fell from a Manhattan skyscraper , says : ‘ I do n't mind talking about it because it helps me get over what happened . |
| 13 | It helps me relax after a hard day 's rapping about controversial political and social issues . |
| 14 | The Proudies would have detested this democratic delegation and abhorred Bishop John 's preference for a black shirt rather than a purple shirt — he wears black ‘ because it helps me to feel a colleague among the clergy ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ It helps me forget the office for a while . |
| 16 | If I 'm down or arguing with one of the family , because I 've been ratty through not being well , then Pat the physiotherapist , I have a talk with her and she talks to me and it helps me to talk to somebody else . |
| 17 | It helps me to think . |
| 18 | ‘ It helps me to stop thinking about all this . ’ |
| 19 | It helps me to think . ’ |
| 20 | No it 's alright I I just thought it helps me and the jury to know what where we are in the evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ I find it helps me to get a good night 's sleep . ’ |
| 22 | It helps me go for so long . |
| 23 | Well , it helps me anyway . |
| 24 | I do n't think it helps him , it helps me calm down and go to sleep . |
| 25 | and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can |
| 26 | I find it helps me sleep in that respect . |
| 27 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 28 | he will because it helps me out , so I do n't say nothing , he says he ca n't wait |
| 29 | It helps them to find their centre of balance when working close together and also to counter-balance their weight when necessary . |
| 30 | Home burials are particularly important to children , partly because it helps them to understand that the pet has gone forever and also because seeing their parents ' sorrow teaches them that it 's normal and acceptable to grieve . |