Example sentences of "[adj] to help [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we were n't thinking about having professional people in our group — we might have a few to help us out but we 'll pick our own . ’ |
| 2 | If , as they themselves admitted , the Communists aimed at the supersession of the ILP , it was obviously dangerous and foolish to help them in their work . |
| 3 | It would have made it easier to help you , and I venture the opinion that our servants feel well treated . |
| 4 | They were then prepared to help me . |
| 5 | Is the Prime Minister further aware that those men like their jobs and that , with his help , they would be able to keep them , but he is not prepared to help them ? |
| 6 | ‘ He recalled the innumerable sacrifices he has made on your behalf and reproached you for not being prepared to help him in his hour of need . |
| 7 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 8 | It is you they need , and your skills they must be prepared to help you to adapt and improve . |
| 9 | ‘ You are not prepared to help us , ’ Isabel Lavender said again , but in a cold , flat , accusatory tone , without any note of pity or pleading . |
| 10 | To those who urged the perennial claims of the virtues of community living and quoted Ecclesiastes 4:10 " Woe to him who is alone when he falls ; for he has not another to help him up " , Rolle answered : they do not define " alone " as being " without God " but understand it to mean " without company " . |
| 11 | They hunt at night , and can not use light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles . |
| 12 | No-one can say for certain whether he was right ; what can be stated with certainty is that with Italy and Germany helping the Nationalists almost from the beginning , non-intervention threw the Spanish Republic into the embrace of the only great power willing to help her — the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | I plan to donate approximately 30 items myself and a friend if willing to help me with the selling . |
| 14 | Are you willing to help me ? ’ |
| 15 | Who is willing to help me ? ‘ |
| 16 | We understand you knew Angy quite well and we thought you might be willing to help us . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Who should be free to help me with the food . |
| 18 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 19 | This seems , this seems a worthwhile thing to do to me , Chairman , this may reflect that , this position that we are in the business cycle that er , you know , with a slightly optimistic outlook , a lot of firms are seeing themselves in a position to expand and , and need this to help them do so . |
| 20 | I 've got this to help it , anyway . ’ |
| 21 | " We want to talk to Vietnam , " Baker said , " because we think they have influence over the Cambodian government and could use this to help us construct conditions permitting free elections . " |
| 22 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 23 | I 've got a lot of work to do tomorrow and I ca n't see Christian being up very early to help me . |
| 24 | They 'll be delighted to help you . |
| 25 | The lawyers turned to their law books to find a precedent , but there was not much to help them except perhaps Ramsey v Hartley ( 1977 ) 2 All ER 673 , described in The Journal of Business Law as ‘ an odd case ’ ( January 1978 at page 77 ) . |
| 26 | I obviously I from what was coming out you probably could n't work out very much to help you but nonetheless I know that I would want to do that as a person . |
| 27 | I think this very special day did much to help us to bear what was to come . |
| 28 | ‘ Not much to help us there , ’ commented Lefevre in the coach on the way to the village . |
| 29 | When world oil prices plunged in the 1980s , their leaders did little to help them adjust to the inevitable decline in living standards . |
| 30 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |