Example sentences of "and cry [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 2 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 3 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 4 | I wanted to throw up , pass out , scream and cry at the same time . |
| 5 | The Iranian Majlis on Dec. 29 addressed a letter of congratulation to the FIS , and on Jan.1 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced what he described as a " hue and cry about the trampling of democracy in Algeria … after the Algerian people said yes to Islam " . |
| 6 | ‘ There was such a hue and cry about the cost of the tiny Thunderbird figures that this time round the toy company has decided to scrap them , ’ said Huge Von of Leisureworld in Belfast . |
| 7 | What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public , for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer . |
| 8 | There was much hue and cry among the typesetting and printing community about the quality of this new-fangled technology but the one element that was retained was that of the compositor 's skill . |
| 9 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 10 | I believe that she had , as she said , seen every point that I had wished to make , and had laughed and cried at the right places . |
| 11 | The Welsh also believed the cyoeraeth was wont to amble along beaches on lonely , stormy nights , carrying a small inextinguishable candle and crying into the wind . |
| 12 | The desire of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , to deliver the West German side of the bargain appears to have been dissolved by the prospect of television pictures showing young East German families , including pregnant women , hungry and crying on the pavement outside an unwelcoming West German embassy . |
| 13 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |
| 14 | The two women held one another , laughing and crying at the same time , while little Danny pulled at Ruth 's skirt , wanting to know , ‘ Who 's that lady , Mam ? ’ |
| 15 | Suddenly the anguish was gone and she was laughing and crying at the same time . |
| 16 | and crying for the cloth of comfort |
| 17 | Fumbling a lottery of falling leaves , and crying to the stones |
| 18 | The gulls were wheeling and crying above the parapets of the ornate bridge and for one mad moment I thought that they , too , were engaged in an elaborate mockery . |
| 19 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 20 | Fiver sat trembling and crying among the nettles as Hazel tried to reassure him and to find out what it could be that had suddenly driven him beside himself . |
| 21 | Larne Mayor Rosaline Armstrong said many of the young children were frightened and crying after the freak accident . |
| 22 | She laughed and cried at the same time , and could not let Oliver go . |
| 23 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 24 | Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school . |
| 25 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 26 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 27 | Ben Jonson came down from London , and cried in the church . |
| 28 | So this was the Angel Gabriel 's temptation : to stop working miracles and run away , because Izzie begged him to , and cried in the dark . |
| 29 | Oh dear God , why did she want to laugh and cry at the same time ? |