Example sentences of "help [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 2 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 3 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 4 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 5 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 6 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 7 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 8 | But what evidence has emerged about dietary fibre certainly puts it among the ‘ good guys ’ , helping to protect us from heart disease , as opposed to the ‘ bad guys ’ like animal fats and smoking . |
| 9 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 10 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 11 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 12 | I often ring at this time of the night for a chat , it helps to stop me from going spare . |
| 13 | This system helps to prevent you from getting too close for a normal approach . |
| 14 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 15 | MARK MOULAND last night paid tribute to Welsh team-mate Ian Woosnam for helping to rescue him from the golfing scrap heap . |
| 16 | A flu vaccination can help to protect you from flu . |
| 17 | A flu vaccination can help to protect you from flu . |