Example sentences of "[adj] to help him " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | The novice flyer will normally require that the model 's response to the transmitter is at a minimum , to avoid any tendency to overcontrol , while the gyro has as much effect as possible to help him during the learning process . |
| 4 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 5 | She tried so hard to help him , to talk with him and show him how much she cared … how much they all cared . |
| 6 | One of the vital things I had to do — and I was too tired to help him myself — was to keep Jimbo occupied . |
| 7 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 8 | In Darlington , Robert visited an agency that told him it was unable to help him find accommodation in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 9 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 10 | Thank you for being there , for at this stage the Marshal was powerless to help him . |
| 11 | The gods with him and those whom he summoned were powerless to help him . |
| 12 | Andrew does n't want to talk about the situation , but he 's alone , outside a system which is powerless to help him . |
| 13 | She was able to help him share his anxiety about the risk of moving , and this made it more manageable . |
| 14 | Anyway , ’ she said challengingly , ‘ he thought you 'd be able to help him , perhaps he was wrong . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But Graham is so brave and full of life , you have to keep on believing that someone , somewhere will be able to help him . |
| 16 | You 're able to help him anyway . |
| 17 | You 're able to help him now are you ? |
| 18 | He might have been able to help him , but even if Ken had wanted to do it all without any assistance from his younger brother , he might at least have told him what he was doing . |
| 19 | Of course we were able to help him — the Stavangers were among our oldest customers , and their T. and T. shipping line had a well-earned reputation . |
| 20 | I was able to help him out . |
| 21 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 22 | Although she did not watch the videos he made , through discussion she was able to help him to gain control of a class which had initially been ‘ unteachable ’ and to design a workcard and organize lessons in a planned way . |
| 23 | ‘ At least three years too late to be able to help him . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If we 'd known , my father and I might have been able to help him ! |
| 25 | Above all , the tsar knew perfectly well that the gentry were unlikely to help him . |
| 26 | I was only too pleased to help him . |
| 27 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 28 | It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out . |
| 29 | The dog , he says , was Miss Woodruff 's responsibility , and he 'd tried his best to help him . |
| 30 | This warmth was sufficient to help him over the threshold of marriage . |