Example sentences of "help me [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 2 | The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems . |
| 3 | He helped me shift the tea-chests |
| 4 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 5 | One of the guys at the gate helped me give the Fiasco a push . |
| 6 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 8 | He gave me every encouragement , lent me camp equipment , provided me with a Somali called Ali as my headman and helped me collect the necessary servants . |
| 9 | It also helped me retain the image of myself as someone special , set aside from the throng , this time because of superior talent . |
| 10 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 11 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |
| 12 | A jovial Indian lady struggling to stay inside her sari helped me find the Electoral Register covering Lee Metford Road and I ran a finger down the names to see if any rang a bell . |
| 13 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 14 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 15 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 75 ) presents the difference between ( 15a ) and ( 15b ) below as one of " immediate " vs " mediate " assistance : ( 15a ) He helped me climb the stairs by propping me up with his shoulder ( He climbed with me ) . |
| 16 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 17 | ‘ That authority is given me to help me find the killer of these girls . ’ |
| 18 | Chris promised to help me buy the drinks and organize the that side of it getting the drinks . |
| 19 | One instructor paddled off while the other stayed to help me get the canoe out and empty it . |
| 20 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 21 | Aplin brought Eddy to Swinbrook and introduced him to Seb and Christian as the man ‘ who 's come here from London to help me solve the problem of our murderous highwayman ’ . |
| 22 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ It helps me forget the office for a while . |
| 25 | I do n't know how long I got left , but gettin' high helps me pass the time ’ |
| 26 | I do n't know how long I got left , but gettin' high helps me pass the time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Help me secure the stairs behind us , ’ he snapped at Lawton , ‘ as much as we can . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 29 | Help me search the car . ’ |
| 30 | Help me save the King — and I 'll help you . ’ |