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Example sentences for "help for"

  • I suppose there's no help for it," she thought, in a panic.

  • There was no help for it; she, Harriet, must act.

  • There was no help for it, her essential honesty would have its way.

  • There is no help for it, you must either take my offer or leave it.

  • There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.

  • They groaned heavily, and I was afraid that I had killed them; but there was no help for it.

  • The Frenchmen now became very impatient, but there was no help for it; they walked about the deck, swearing and stamping, and throwing out invectives against the fog and rain as they looked up at it.

  • There came to me my cozen Harry Alcocke, whom I much respect, to desire (by a letter from my father to me, where he had been some days) my help for him to some place.

  • About bedtime it fell a-raining, and the house being all open at top, it vexed me; but there was no help for it.

  • When he sets his mind on a thing, the thing is done; no help for it.

  • Then it seems he had no help for it but to try and get back to Mr. Rugge.

  • There was no help for it but to appear at dinner, attired as he had been before, in his light pedestrian jacket, morning waistcoat flowered with sprigs, and a fawn-coloured nether man.

  • We were compelled to camp; there was no help for it; the messengers had not returned from Kawanga.

  • But the genie said, 'There is no help for it but I must kill thee.

  • But he answered, 'There is no help for it, I must kill thee: so choose what death thou wilt die.

  • Then he said to the Afrit, 'Is there no help for it, but thou must kill me?

  • Quoth she, 'There is no help for it but thou must tell me the reason of thy laughter, though thou die for it.

  • Yea the troubles of this man were so many and great, that his enemies began to triumph over him, saying, "There is no help for him in God.

  • Why, Shall-come hath also provided an help for this.

  • There was no help for it; she had to give him leave, lest the king should hear the noise he made.

  • Well, there was no help for it; the Prince had said it, and go she must.

  • There was no help for it, go she must; and when she reached the palace, they dressed her out so finely that no princess ever looked so smart.

  • She wept and took it ill, but there was no help for it; go he must.

  • There was no help for it, he must and would go home to fetch the coach and seven horses, and she was to wait for him by the seaside.

  • There was no help for it, and we complied with a tolerably good grace.

  • She went up to her father and mother, fell on their necks and kissed them; there was no help for it, they all had to weep for joy.

  • Then Faithful John saw that there was no help for it now, and with a heavy heart and many sighs, sought out the key from the great bunch.

  • There was no help for it, the old man had to betake him to his needle once more, and the youth hired himself to a miller.

  • At length his councillors said, "There is no help for it, the King must marry again, that we may have a Queen.

  • There was no help for it now, and putting as bold a face on it as she could, she told Mrs. Clarke to book it.

  • But there being no help for it, he followed the procession through the tombstones, his white surplice blowing, Dick wondering how the little grave had been found amongst so many, but the sexton knew.

  • It was rather hard to ask her to play the day after the funeral, but there was no help for it.

  • There was no help for it, however; Felicie Berthier stopped to speak to the invalid.

  • The poor dead man lying there must be done up, there is no help for it.

  • It would be a cold end to a long friendship and my heart was almost frozen at the thought of it, but it was all I dared do and I saw no help for it.

  • But now it is all over, my child, and there's no help for it.

  • It is hard, very hard, but there seems to be no help for it.

  • I must do what I can; there is no help for it.

  • Well, if I must, I must; there's no help for it.

  • I was running--running as the brave stag before the hounds--running as I have done a great number of times before in my life, when there was no help for it but a race.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "help for" 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:
    also mentioned; been trying; could well; direction from; ever beheld; feathers white; foreign port; good angel; good ship; help being; help feeling; help from; help herself; help him; help himself; help laughing; help myself; help people; help thee; help themselves; helping himself; helping them; its way; morning sickness; son oeuvre; week from