Example sentences of "able to help [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 2 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 3 | But Liza Tremayne was well aware that there were not all that many who would be able to help her out of her present predicament . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I think I know who 'll be able to help her . |
| 5 | For example , the Society is often able to give a grant for central heating , which can transform the lives of the old or sick , while a recent case history concerned the elderly widow of an architect who needed a convalescent holiday after a hip operation , when the ABS was able to help her financially . |
| 6 | He says it is nice to be able to help her and asks : ‘ You do n't mind it , darling , when I want to talk to you so much ? ’ |
| 7 | Janet is hoping that many of you will be able to help her with her new project . |
| 8 | ‘ I explained the problem to him , and he thinks he 'll be able to help her . ’ |
| 9 | And Luke was local — he might be able to help her with her flat-hunting . |
| 10 | ‘ They are n't very likely to be able to help her , are they ? |
| 11 | Though he loved her , he felt he was less and less able to help her . |
| 12 | we might be able to help we might be able to generate some ideas between us |
| 13 | If they go away with a positive decision against starting up a tourism enterprise , Sue feels she has been able to help them avoid an expensive mistake . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure there are lots of ways you 'll be able to help them enjoy their holiday , ’ said Mummy . |
| 15 | In many of the prisons , CAB sessions are geared to deal with prisoners ' pre-release anxieties and to explain how the CAB on the outside will be able to help them when they are released . |
| 16 | We shall never be able to help them unless we get power . |
| 17 | If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact : |
| 18 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 19 | This was aimed less at the poor themselves than at those able to help them and ‘ not able to make use of Physitians and Chirurgians ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ And you 're able to help them ? ’ |
| 21 | They turn up on church doorsteps in inner London hoping that the Church will be able to help them out in some way . |
| 22 | Attitudes are changing , partly because managers can see that without their involvement computer systems are unlikely to succeed , and because they believe that computer systems should be able to help them in their decision-making . |
| 23 | Thus if an expert and the parties are faced with an ambiguous or impossible procedure laid down by contract , the court may be able to help them work out what they are supposed to do . |
| 24 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |
| 25 | Anyone who may be able to help them in their inquiries is urged to contact Stroud Police Station . |
| 26 | We 've found that we 've been able to help them er in various aspects of their life . |
| 27 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 28 | Then usually the parish registers and things like the census returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 29 | She was able to help him share his anxiety about the risk of moving , and this made it more manageable . |
| 30 | Anyway , ’ she said challengingly , ‘ he thought you 'd be able to help him , perhaps he was wrong . ’ |