I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accept help
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Don’t be afraid to accept help if you need it.
an offer of help/support/friendship etc
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Any offers of help would be appreciated.
ask for help
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Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
begged for help
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She ran to the nearest house and begged for help.
couldn’t help overhearing
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I couldn’t help overhearing your argument.
domestic help (= help with cleaning, washing etc )
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People in well-paid jobs can afford domestic help.
emergency aid/relief/help (= things such as food and medicine that are given to people when they are in a very dangerous situation )
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The charity made a television appeal for emergency aid to the region.
enlist sb’s help/services etc
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He has enlisted the help of a sports psychologist for the team.
generous amount/helping/measure etc
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a generous helping of pasta
Heaven help...if
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Heaven help him if he ever comes back here again!
help desk
help sb with their homework
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I often have to help her with her homework.
help screen
help with the chores
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All their children help with the chores.
help
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There can be no doubt that this sort of help is valuable for teachers.
home help
more of a hindrance than a help
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A degree is more of a hindrance than a help in British industry.
offer advice/help/support etc
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Your doctor should be able to offer advice on diet.
practical help/support ( also practical assistance formal )
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There will be trained people available to listen and to provide practical help.
professional help
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It is very important for parents to get professional help if this problem arises.
seek help
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He sought help from the police.
sent for help
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I’ve sent for help .
shout for help
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I opened my mouth to shout for help.
unfailing help/support etc
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I’d like to thank you all for your unfailing support.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
please
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Let me keep to it. Please help me to keep to it.
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To be eligible for these please help us by showing any appropriate identification when paying for tickets.
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If anyone can help please contact the Editorial office.
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Help me somebody, please help me.
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I am 11 years old so please help in any way you can.
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You make it possible. Please help us to make your money work even harder.
■ VERB
offer
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A number of local law societies had offered to help , she added, as had several Council members.
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He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
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He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources.
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Quinn would have liked to offer to help , but he could not budge.
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I promise I won't even offer to help .
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Then after class, he walked by as she tried to get it started and politely offered to help .
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The balloon's been stolen, and 10 crates of lager are being offered to anyone who helps locate it.
try
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They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others.
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Everything Hicks had worked for was falling neatly into place -- until he tried to help a wounded man.
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And she was only trying to help .
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Samper has claimed those accusations were a plot to remove him from power because he has tried to help the poor.
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She had tried to help him.
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The conflict and anxiety approach has worrying implications when it comes to trying to help people solve their problems.
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Simon House and the annex take in people from the street and try to help them sort out their lives.
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Barbara Timmer got her hand bitten all the way through to the bone trying to help .
want
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If you want to help contact during office hours.
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I want to help the team win and I still think I can do that.
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Your doctor wants to help you.
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Usually, I really believe in my clients and want to help them.
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If you want to help , perhaps you'd give Victorine a hand with washing up the breakfast things?
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She had badly wanted to help Glover arrange his furniture when the time came for him to move into his new quarters.
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She wanted me to help her.
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She seems to genuinely want to help Jim.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God help us
God help us
God help you/him etc
God help you/him etc
cry for help
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Janie's suicide attempt was obviously a cry for help.
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A boy passing by homewards from the pictures heard his cries for help.
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I suppose underneath it was a cry for help.
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If anyone had been crying for help, the firemen must have responded by now.
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Meanwhile, another cry for help.
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Opening his mouth to cry for help, he -!
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Screams and desperate cries for help filled the streets.
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Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
heaven help sb
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Heaven help us if it snows again.
pleased to help/assist
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If you do not understand the details enclosed please contact the Finance Department where the staff will be pleased to assist.
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NatWest understands your needs and is pleased to help.
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Our group bookings specialists are always pleased to assist the discerning traveller who requires quality, service and value second to none.
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There will always be some one who will be only too pleased to help.
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They will be pleased to help and advise you.
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They will be pleased to help and so will the suppliers listed, including, of course, myself.
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They will be pleased to help you with specific questions and will give you as much general information as they can.
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Whatever the size of your kitchen, our talented designers will be pleased to help you plan it.
some friend you are/some help she was etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Did you enjoy the trip?" asked Jack, helping her out of the boat.
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Help me lift this, will you?
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All this arguing isn't going to help us win the election.
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Crying's not going to help .
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Dad, I don't understand my homework. Will you help me?
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Dan's mother has been great about helping with the kids.
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Do you want me to help you with those bags?
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Her uncle said he would help her to find a job.
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I'm ready to help . Is there something for me to do?
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I took a couple of aspirin for my headache, but they didn't help .
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It is hoped that the tax increases will help to stabilize the economy.
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Part of the assistant's job is to help to organize conferences and keep the director informed.
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Spending time in Spain should help improve her Spanish.
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The latest report should help us to evaluate the true benefits of the program.
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The money will be used to help starving children around the world.
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The plan was intended to help development in rural areas.
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The warm weather this spring has certainly helped the farmers.
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Warren offered to help clean up the house after the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that could help to bring an early end to the recession for the traders.
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Another crew chief from the ship behind us helped Leese with his straps.
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But does Bush ever haul out the millionaire investment banker or oil baron to show whom he will be helping?
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He was banking on at least $ 675 million in savings initiated by New York state to help .
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She had helped to prepare the table.
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The company said it is holding shares to help finance possible acquisitions in the future.
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The union thus helps people develop a greater sense of money management.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
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Two other characteristics of the sample population require some comment: the incidence of employment, and of domestic help .
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Also patron of domestic help , housekeepers, and maids.
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Midwinter does not restrict his discussion of domestic help to private householders.
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Others were manned by his friends and the domestic help .
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When domestic help is employed it may be the case that she takes over the husband's responsibilities rather than the wife's.
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You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week, or 24-hour a day care.
extra
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The changes included lowering taxes and giving extra help to the farming sector.
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There are a lot more extra help classes, too.
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But, as with others in society, there are times when extra help or advice is needed.
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One of the reasons I could justify putting them in there was the D block where I could give them extra help .
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Does she employ extra help if necessary?
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Give him extra help in being aware of his wishes and intentions.
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Peristaltic tights will appeal to sufferers from poor circulation and varicose veins, and those whose hearts need a bit of extra help .
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There are children who need extra help with components of reading.
financial
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Now, with the TECs, we intend to introduce new financial help for career and training guidance.
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His wife, Mary Barley, is reviving the petition drive with financial help from Jones.
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The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
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It is state officials who are responsible for finding victims and easing their pain with financial help .
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However, this financial help is too limited in relation to actual expenditure.
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No offer of financial help , no kind invitations to join them in club activities were forthcoming from Charles.
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Market-distorting activities arise from state aids such as subsidies, tax concessions, and other financial help given to domestic companies.
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In 1873, when Scott asked Carnegie for financial help , Carnegie turned down his former mentor.
great
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Thanks again for your very great help over the questionnaires.
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But Temin does not really claim that the Fed was of great help .
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Today he plays off a nine handicap, a great help when he is carrying the bag.
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They know Britain well, and will be of great help to you.
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In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio.
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Our first holiday to the islands helped solve that problem, and provided great help in future years.
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It was a great help to us.
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Male speaker Ultrasound scanning is a great help .
little
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There was also very little demand for help on legal matters and employment issues.
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Center Ray Ferraro made it 2-0 with a little help from Verbeek.
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And with a little help from its friends, the big multinational companies and landowning farmers, it is spreading its roots.
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At this point Katz would dearly love a little navigational help from above.
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Paul Reece keeping out Bobby Barnes, with a little help from the cross-bar.
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There are only challenged people, who with a little help can be just like everyone else.
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If Regazzoni was little help to Lauda within Ferrari, Reutemann was even less.
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With little help from her father, she raised the younger children and saw them all through college.
medical
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But it is very important to get medical help in the early stages.
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Three weeks later, the teacher added these observations: Harold needs medical help as well as much careful teaching.
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Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett's house where medical help was soon to hand.
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Granato began experiencing headaches so severe, he sought medical help .
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Get any medical help available, then set about finding your own way to manage your disabilities.
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His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish.
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Disturbed sleep patterns may also be one symptom of depression, which requires medical help .
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Finally, both staff and residents must be able to summon skilled medical and nursing help very quickly both day and night.
practical
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There were letters offering practical help .
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The social worker can give practical help and advice on all these tasks.
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Religion, combined with practical help , can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
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This scheme provides practical and financial help for would-be purchasers with existing homes still to sell.
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Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help , advice and social activities.
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There seems to be a coldness at the heart of much hard-left philosophy, where theory takes precedent over practical help .
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Which is sweet and touching, as you can imagine, but not really much practical help .
professional
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But for many people, the best solution may be a combination of tax software and professional help .
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Name of Consortium - should we try to get professional help with this? 8.
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Your spouse might be able to help you, or you may need to seek professional help.
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Restoration often depends upon the willingness of both to communicate openly. Professional help may be needed.
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The extent to which bereavement is worked through depends on self-awareness, external support, professional help and general attitudes.
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After several weeks of sleepless nights, Walter sought professional help .
■ NOUN
desk
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Upon contacting the help desk , your call will be logged and you will be asked to provide information concerning the problem.
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By and large, Windows 95 fixes this problem, which is what your help desk is probably talking about.
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In any organisation the most active and critical area is the computer support help desk .
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A help desk provides immediate quotations and on the spot cover if required.
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CustomerQ integrates customer support, call tracking, help desk and product defect tracking in a single module that includes Informix.
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These include communication the corporate help desk , probably with the help of remote diagnostic probes.
home
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Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
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We urge parents to plan ahead for postpartum home help .
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Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help - when it was finally arranged - was not enough.
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As a tertiary intervention, I offered to organise a home help or meals on wheels service if Mrs Allen wished.
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For example those over 75 are six times more likely to receive a home help than those aged 64-75.
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A full-time job, a small child, and no home help left her little energy for dinner parties anyway.
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Local information from user and carer groups had revealed a basic home help cleaning service was highly valued by many clients.
self
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A friend recently told me her man didn't indulge in self help .
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There is a strong element of self help in the programme.
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He helps to run Body Positive a self help group for sufferers like himself.He welcomes any scientific advance but remains cautious.
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Self help Many community care schemes have elements of self help built into them.
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These will be grouped under four heads decentralisation, consumerism and participation, self help and joint action.
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Independence, self help and active citizenship have all been praised.
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Aims: to assist in the setting up of local self help groups and to provide information and counselling.
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This is yet another Northern Ireland example of self help in a very needy situation.
■ VERB
ask
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I ran out of the house immediately and came to London to ask for your help .
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They not only ask for help , they also seem to need more support and emotional nurturing than others.
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If in doubt, always ask for help from a solicitor, social worker or some other professional you know and trust.
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What a difference it makes to ask for help and actually get it.
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We ask for help in our task of calling for an end to the executions and the release of all political prisoners.
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Second, can the professionals whom people ask for help in changing actually provide that help?
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Geoffrey decided he would have to wake Deborah and ask for her help .
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When they ask a teacher for help , they get help.
beg
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And anyway I don't want to beg for Edgar's help , or make trouble for him.
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Cupid had told him the whole Story and had begged for his help .
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I suppose I should have just gone and begged for help but Shallot has his pride.
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Rescued by human teens and taken to the vet, Keelk recovers and begs for help to rescue her family.
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I hate the sound of people crying in pain, begging for help .
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Like his people, the Somalian President can only beg for help .
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SHe'd never begged help off anyone before - hadn't needed to.
call
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My wife went down the fellside to a cottage and the lady kindly called 999 for help .
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She continued to call for help every minute or so but, as time passed, her hopes diminished.
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Messengers ran out to call for help in men and gear and food.
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She tried to speak, to call for help , to explain herself, to scream, but no words would come.
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Theatre administrator Patricia McBride is calling on expert help to get the boy's drawl exactly right.
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Callers are given appropriate phone numbers to call for help , and perhaps an explanation of Medicaid or Medicare.
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She was murdered before she could call for help .
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Kaiser called for help on the emergency channel when we were hit.
cry
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Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help .
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The women began to cry when help arrived.
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Opening his mouth to cry for help , he -!
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The former cried out for help .
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The voice she was hearing was surely crying out for help .
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It turned out that the radio was keyed continuously, and the only voice was a single trooper crying for help .
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If anyone had been crying for help , the firemen must have responded by now.
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She cried for help and the pair ran out of the shop.
enlist
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Warn the shop owner in advance and enlist his help .
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She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers.
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For practical reasons, she enlisted the help of the air force.
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Next he enlisted the help of his wife and two friends to remind him to say no more often and pace himself.
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In turn, Cassidy enlisted the help of the Mail on Sunday to justify his behaviour.
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He said he learned Pond was also in the country and enlisted his help in dealing with the player.
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You may also need to enlist the help of a friend.
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He has even enlisted the help of Cy Avara, the barber for Sen.
get
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The manual can be read on screen so getting help is a key press away!
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Or, he could do the tough thing, which is admit to a problem and get some help .
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Please could you tell me how to get some help ?
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We got some help from international labor organizations.
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In addition, local authorities may have difficulty in knowing which old people need help and of getting help to them in time.
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In answering such life-and-death questions, he gets no help from electronics.
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Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend.
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Perhaps twice that many are not getting help , Kalemkiarian said.
give
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Can you give me some help with keeping Kribs?
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Interest rates continue to fall, giving crucial help to debtors, most of whose loans have variable rates.
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I appreciate all you can do for him, in giving him very special help .
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Our colleague Mark Wheadon has also given valuable help .
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If voters need help to properly complete the voting process, they should be given help when requested.
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And the descriptions of the two men have been too varied to give much help to detectives.
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In my case, for example, my husband gives me every help .
need
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This means that there are more old people needing special help and proportionately fewer people of working age to provide for them.
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But he emphasizes that not all attorneys will need his help .
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She needed the help Harvey had promised.
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They need your help about everything from prospecting to how to get along with their administrative assistant.
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Sometimes she wished somebody would ask if she needed help , but that was the way it was.
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Three weeks later, the teacher added these observations: Harold needs medical help as well as much careful teaching.
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They can not speak the language, so they can not get work and they need help .
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We need all the help we can get.
offer
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She had offered practical help as well as tough-minded advice.
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Consultants now offer help to companies when assessing their knowledge resources and learning capabilities.
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That Nancy Bigears is a gem, lecturing me before I could offer my help .
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Do any offer help to the project manager in motivating the team?
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I am worried about her, and my husband and I offer help .
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Many of these patients will be offered further help of one kind or another.
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Many women have serious problems and deserve to be treated with respect and offered help that is to the point.
provide
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In 1981 the Conservative government introduced the Assisted Places Scheme which provides help with tuition fees and certain other incidental expenses.
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A student of Plato, Xenocrates, does provide invaluable help .
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The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas.
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Bruce should provide help as a run defender while Wallace would be used as a designated pass rusher.
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The briefing sheet also provides help in interpreting the data.
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Corporations such as Citibank provide in-service literacy help for some of their employees.
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This scheme provides practical and financial help for would-be purchasers with existing homes still to sell.
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Others fret that the system might not provide enough help in times of rural economic crisis.
seek
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Unless the job stretches subordinates there is no reason why they should need, or seek , your help .
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Although Sheila finds them a handful and is known to shout at them, she has always sought appropriate help .
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Two other climbers were unhurt and went back to the bottom of the Tuckerman bowl seeking help .
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They had sought help from the marriage counsellor a little late in the day.
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Granato began experiencing headaches so severe, he sought medical help .
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A patient seeks help and is therefore vulnerable.
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For depressions that are more severe, you should seek help .
turn
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Lykophron turned to Sparta for help .
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She was the goddess married women turned to for help .
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It was returned to the company but when they needed Mrs Dibble's carriage as well, she turned to Lena for help .
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Therefore we turn to you for help in ways to make lightweight canoes in a cheap but very safe manner.
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I had virtually no one to turn to for help .
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There are many people to whom you can turn for help .
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He turned for help to hawks and owls.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God help us
God help us
God help you/him etc
God help you/him etc
cry for help
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Janie's suicide attempt was obviously a cry for help.
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A boy passing by homewards from the pictures heard his cries for help.
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I suppose underneath it was a cry for help.
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If anyone had been crying for help, the firemen must have responded by now.
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Meanwhile, another cry for help.
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Opening his mouth to cry for help, he -!
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Screams and desperate cries for help filled the streets.
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Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
pleased to help/assist
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If you do not understand the details enclosed please contact the Finance Department where the staff will be pleased to assist.
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NatWest understands your needs and is pleased to help.
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Our group bookings specialists are always pleased to assist the discerning traveller who requires quality, service and value second to none.
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There will always be some one who will be only too pleased to help.
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They will be pleased to help and advise you.
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They will be pleased to help and so will the suppliers listed, including, of course, myself.
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They will be pleased to help you with specific questions and will give you as much general information as they can.
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Whatever the size of your kitchen, our talented designers will be pleased to help you plan it.
sb can't help noticing sth
seek (sb's) advice/help/assistance etc
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Abdominal complaints Abdomen: When to seek advice Urgently, Right now!
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Almost three years since she sought help for the severe seizures, Harlan had her surgery.
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It will normally be necessary to seek expert advice on the realisable values of all the major assets.
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She can walk into a family planning clinic and seek assistance.
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The more Marcus thought about it, the more he realized that he would have to seek help from Fanshawe.
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They had sought my advice, and I had recommended this machine.
some friend you are/some help she was etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a plea for help
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I'm having trouble paying the rent, but I don't want to ask my parents for help .
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I really want to thank you for all your help .
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If I need any help I'll call you.
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It's hard to get good help these days.
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Kelly hasn't been much help either.
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We managed to buy the house with a little help from Dave's parents.
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With the help of a nicotine patch she was able to quit smoking.
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Would you like some help with those suitcases?
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You go get help - I'll wait here with the car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the descriptions of the two men have been too varied to give much help to detectives.
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Children can compete for the parent's favour and help , which obscures the real cause of the argument.
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Henry went to see if help was needed.
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I don't think I can be much help to you, to be honest.
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Nestor made them heartily welcome, but about the object of their coming he could give them little help .
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She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers.
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Then, with the right attitude and a little help from your friends you are ready.