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Example sentences for "can help"

  • I see you are not strong, and you shall not be taxed any more than I can help.

  • What can I do but live up to my agreement and not torment her any more than I can help with my company?

  • I don't mean there shall be any if I can help it," she answered with a light ripple of laughter.

  • I don't want you to do a thing today except to get the meals, and remember, I can help in this if you don't feel well.

  • I'd give it if it was my last penny, for I can help in no other way; and if I need money, I can always earn it, thank God!

  • Then I'll wear them, and I won't have fancies if I can help it.

  • Not if I can help it,--not if I can help it.

  • Master, with the look of one who does not mean to be tripped up if he can help himself.

  • Nothing must happen to Myrtle," he said, "that we can help.

  • I'll not think of any more than I can help, except what you tell me.

  • He is a regular Londoner, and can hardly stand the work; but he won't give in if he can help it, or we might not be together.

  • The children only laugh about it as the most preposterous thing they can think of, for he never speaks to a woman if he can help it.

  • I don't want to enter complaint against him if I can help it.

  • I might mind; but I don't mean to be thrashed if I can help it.

  • I'll try not to worry you any more than I can help.

  • And when we get to Canada," said Eliza, "I can help you.

  • We never go to war with them if we can help it, on account of their dangerous horns; but this insult was so great and so unprovoked that our brave men decided to fight, in order to be revenged," said the woman.

  • Not if we can help it," admitted Jak Horner.

  • I think it is dangerous to think of this thing any more than we can help," he replied.

  • I work like a horse, and I never spend a shilling that I can help.

  • I never mention Mr Montague's name if I can help it,--and I should not have spoken of Mr Broune, had you not asked me.

  • Tell him that if he will come and see me once before I go, I will not be more unkind to him than I can help.

  • I forgot that, and will save you the said glory, if I can help it, for a year or two.

  • Do you fancy that any but the vulgar worship the image itself, or dream that it can help or hear them?

  • As for the house, we won't trouble her to lend it us longer than we can help.

  • I don't want to trouble him if I can help it, poor man, for he is a melancholy object; a reg'lar Settler in every respect.

  • They must themselves turn to the heroic remedies for the menacing conditions under which they are struggling, then we can help, and we mean to help.

  • We can help, but only they can win this part of the war.

  • That I am not going to the wall if I can help it.

  • I don't mean to go to the State's prison if I can help it.

  • If I can help you in any way, I shall do so gladly.

  • Horseback's too dangerous: I don't want to kill you if I can help it.

  • Well, I don't intend to get killed if I can help it.

  • Perhaps I can help you to settle about the regiments.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can help" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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