Which preposition to use with help
I have to acknowledge the help of Mr Ball's notes, from which I have taken a few references; but my translation was made many years ago.
To help in this reconstruction, to aid in vivifying, coördinating, and ruling the varied processes of organized religion, is your work and mine.
His clothes became threadbare, his boots worn out, his general appearance dilapidated; but he got help from a few good people, who saw the hero beneath his rags.
His being a Protestant was rather a help to him; he could take an impartial view of things.
In every age, there are men just to come in contact with whom is a benediction and a help for years.
" "Wish you could help with the lading," said he.
If thou art, then, as wise as I hold thee to be, bestow such counsel and help on me as may lighten my anguish, or, at least, abstain from exasperating it by censuring that to which my soul, unable to act differently, is inclined with all its energy.
Whenever a letter came asking for money, she had the case investigated, and if the story was true, gave practical help at once.
By themselves they got on rapidly with work on the roof, very much helped by three days' unexpectedly mild weather.
Cartwright had hesitated, weighing the value of his wife's help against his scruples, until his step-son's hints had tipped the beam.
Because the man despises his wife's tendencies and she despises his, it never occurs to either to try making over themselves, thus helping along the very thing they were drawn together for.
None of the countries which have come out of the War on the Continent have a financial position which helps toward a solid situation.
In another way, and one that was destined to serve them many times in the future, she became of greater help than ever to Kazan.
"You go right along, Johnnie, and see cain't you help about Mr. Stoddard.
Everyone is bound to pray with fervour, and a respectful attitude is a big help towards that end.
She allowed herself to be escorted to the car and helped into it in silence.
This spirit in pain,if it was a spirit,this voice out of the unseen,was a poor fellow-creature in misery, to be succored and helped out of his trouble, to my boy.
On May 3, 1776, she writes:'Mr. Thrale says he shall not die in peace without seeing Rome, and I am sure he will go nowhere that he can help without you.'
If my friends permit me to proceed, I hope I shall be helped through it; but it looks formidable.
You can at one blow destroy, at least for a long time, the impulse to activity and to formation if you repel their help as childish, useless or even as a hindrance....
I will send help unto you presently.
And we must deprive you of Denis, for we need his help over a big building affair.
The whole 30 men were on the ground rolling in the sawdust, the Japs rolling over and under the Russians, twisting their legs and arms in an unknown manner, and making them yell for help like a mastiff that has trifled in an overbearing manner with a little bulldog, until the bulldog got mad and began the chewing act on the mastiff's fore leg.
Ab Canty was carried to another room, and Tom Foss, who nearly shook to pieces when lifted from the water, was helped after his friend.
Here were the seven of us, pinned in a hill-fort, with no help within fifty miles, and one of the seven was a woman!