Example sentences of "[vb infin] helped [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have helped myself . |
| 2 | In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case . |
| 3 | We have dwelt too long among the great ; for all these cities , vital as their history was for the future , give little help in explaining the extraordinary prosperity of the smaller cities — though the precocious growth of Pisa may have helped its Tuscan neighbours . |
| 4 | It is mentioned in the Old Testament and Pliny likened its appearance to human genitals , which can only have helped its amatory cause . |
| 5 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 6 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 7 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 8 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 9 | The evidence of wage-rates , as shown expressed in real terms in the Phelps Brown and Hopkins index , [ A.1 ] points in this direction , and if there was , as seems likely , a decline in urban rent levels , this too could have helped them . |
| 10 | Bobby Beasley jokes that down at the start they kicked the horse that was second and that might have helped them win . |
| 11 | He claims that would have helped them grow . |
| 12 | But Darlington were still in the game and more backing from the fans might have helped them turn pressure into goals . |
| 13 | Afterwards I wondered if I had offered to paint the name of her firm on the coffin for all to see , it might have helped her business and consequently her attitude towards my custom . |
| 14 | It looked a classic case for the Independent Living Fund ( before new claims were abolished by the government in December 1992 ) to pay for a package of care and support which would have helped her cope . |
| 15 | Many would have helped their mothers , especially on washdays , minding the baby or turning the mangle , some , like the young Louise Jermy , at the expense of health as well as leisure . |
| 16 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 17 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 18 | Could she have helped him ? |
| 19 | He was also a strong , well-built man , so his good physique may have helped him . |
| 20 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 21 | And in years and years to come you 'll be all alone and useless and you 'll think ‘ Perhaps I should have helped Masklin when he asked me , ’ and then you 'll think , ‘ If I had my time all over again , I would have helped him . ’ |
| 22 | Do you think the Betty Ford Clinic would have helped him , and did he ever get tempted ? |
| 23 | She was at fault for not taking a hand in the business before now , she could have helped him , been her father 's right hand . |
| 24 | Now that the attentions of the KGB have vaporised ( they forced him to store or hide his machines , they may have helped him defect ) , the urge is to fly again . |
| 25 | It can not have helped him , but the restored democracy had treated the leaders of that attempt to destroy it with , if anything , excessive leniency . |
| 26 | His arguments do not seem dated , although the ideas about scientific revolutions put forward by Thomas Kuhn could have helped him along in one or two places . |
| 27 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 28 | ‘ Would n't have helped him much , ’ Dawson said , ‘ but it might have put me in a more relaxed frame of mind . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I would have told it at once , ’ she said ruefully , ‘ but that it would not have helped him . |
| 30 | ‘ But you were the director — you could have helped him . ’ |