Example sentences of "it help [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 2 | It helped them keep their end up in battle , too , claim historians . |
| 3 | It helped them get the over-all view of what was happening here , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | Since it helped me jump even higher , I took to pole-vaulting right away . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It helped us make some critical decisions about the drilling and completion of the well , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Tactics for outwitting the ticket office phone system and managing to get hold of tickets ( the consensus was use the Fax Method — if it helped us get a replay against Stuttgart , just think what it can do when you want a ticket for West Ham away on a Tuesday night in December ) |
| 8 | " Is n't it to help them transport the rubber and coal and rice and all the things that they export from the colony ? " |
| 9 | Teachers in schools where decision-making is ‘ closed ’ would do well to remember this and utilise it to help them ease their school towards a more ‘ open ’ system . |
| 10 | You can use it to help you find your way around a tape , rather like you use page numbers in a book . |
| 11 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It helps one understand how difficult it is just to eat , to pick things up or to dry your feet . |
| 14 | It helps me think of them . ’ |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I find it helps me sleep in that respect . |
| 17 | It helps me go for so long . |
| 18 | I do n't think it helps him , it helps me calm down and go to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ It helps me forget the office for a while . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It helps me relax after a hard day 's rapping about controversial political and social issues . |
| 22 | Some women find a cup of strong coffee every hour or so helpful , as it helps them pass more water . |
| 23 | It helps them negotiate meanings , both linguistic and social . |
| 24 | This is particularly important for elementary students as it helps them keep pace with the programme and therefore gives them confidence in their ability to cope with longer stretches of language . |
| 25 | Erm for another reasons , which we shall get on to a bit later , there may be a great deal of confusion , er memories may not be clear or well formed , um people , according to some theories and ideas , people may be under-reporting because um y'know it helps them maintain their eq equilibrium a bit better . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't care what they ask me if it helps them find the real killer . |
| 27 | Outdoor play is particularly important because it helps them develop in a whole variety of ways . |
| 28 | It helps everyone get started if there are notes indicating where and how video materials would fit into the syllabus . |
| 29 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 30 | It helps him relax . |