Example sentences of "[pers pn] to help [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie motioned to them to help him and all three put their shoulders to it and pushed . |
| 2 | One good look at Ruari 's strained face and Mairi Ban had him on his feet , his arms over their shoulders for them to help him home . |
| 3 | He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter . |
| 4 | He impressed Meredith Jones as he impressed Philip Burton — both to an extent that they had never been impressed before , driving them to help him help himself . |
| 5 | A skilled adult can encourage children to make comparisons and talk with them to help them to identify differences that they can see but can not label with a word . |
| 6 | I use them to help me make a record , to make the band sound tighter than they would do otherwise . |
| 7 | He wrote them to help me out , like . |
| 8 | This is another reason that I deliberately choose to move frequently in and out of role in drama with young children , and why I often use the strategy of asking them to help me create ( or construct ) the character that I play . |
| 9 | It was as if I could see Dorothy looking at them , looking at them , trying to draw something from them to help her to hold on . |
| 10 | She began to be what is termed ‘ a public nuisance ’ going up to strangers , not begging under the terms of the act but importuning them to help her get her daughter back . |
| 11 | There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle . |
| 12 | waiting until you call on one of them to help you relax . |
| 13 | Y you have alo millions of these things in your gut and you need them to help you digest your food . |
| 14 | Do n't expect them to help you , because all their help will be a hindrance . |
| 15 | And indeed , it did hold its stout pectoral fins away from the sides of its body , and it was not hard to imagine that had it been vigorous , it could have used them to help it move over the rocky sea floor of its true environment . |
| 16 | We know that our clock is normally adjusted by various external factors — and now we can use them to help us adjust to a change in life-style . |
| 17 | We must learn to listen to others who have the benefit of experience and knowledge , and allow them to help us broaden our horizons . |
| 18 | It will not be long before we 're holding out our begging bowls to the Third World , asking them to help us . |
| 19 | I paid them to help us . |
| 20 | So I was wondering whether FACE readers would write to me to help me with my research . |
| 21 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 22 | She , why she , throughout my life , has always stood by me to help me make big decisions … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That authority is given me to help me find the killer of these girls . ’ |
| 24 | Andrew appealed to me to help them . |
| 25 | As some of the other legionnaires could n't write very well , they asked me to help them with their letters . |
| 26 | Now with the older West Indian people we would have you know , a passing sort of conversations and I know a couple of them came to help to get me to help them to fill in D H S S forms and things like that . |
| 27 | The affidavit adds : ‘ On about December 11 , Kevin asked me to help him . |
| 28 | He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe . |
| 29 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 30 | In fact , rather tactlessly , he would ask my advice , try to get me to help him understand her point of view . |