Example sentences of "cry the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you men , or stone ’ cries the Governor ; ‘ Men , and we 'll prove it with our swords ’ replies Alvarez ( v. iii . |
| 2 | ‘ But where ? ’ cries the boy … |
| 3 | ‘ Sentence first , verdict afterwards , ’ cries the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland . |
| 4 | We ca n't sell out , ’ cries the frealistic kid . |
| 5 | ‘ Now , bounce ! ’ cries the porter . |
| 6 | ‘ Mother , Mother ! ’ cries the pierced helmet . |
| 7 | Cries the poulterer 's hare hanging |
| 8 | Cry the man mercy , love him , take his offer ; |
| 9 | The official descriptions presumably reflected the most recent activity of the person concerned ; when interpreting data drawn from the Hue and Cry the flexibility of occupational boundaries should be kept in mind . |
| 10 | Cry the mouths |
| 11 | Cry the eyes from the depths |
| 12 | The chink in the sister 's armour now made her cry the more . |
| 13 | Said you 'd cried the devil out of you , and that was good . ’ |
| 14 | During funerals for some rich people , for example , he saw that the people who had cried the loudest in church usually recovered the fastest afterwards . |
| 15 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 16 | Claudia was crying the other morning and I caught Luke hugging her . |
| 17 | She thought she was crying the words aloud , but all that came back to her was her voice — flat , low , saying , ‘ She 's my aunt . |
| 18 | Not that Canada is crying the blues . |
| 19 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 20 | I am sitting in the cab crying the tears of the hopelessly misunderstood . |
| 21 | They were both hugging me and I was crying the kind of tears which seem to come from a part of you which you never knew you had . |
| 22 | It is the Spirit who adopts us alongside Christ into this sonship with God , and who enables us to cry the ‘ Abba ’ of little children in the family of God . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ cried the children . |
| 24 | But if you are in mellow frame of mind , there is plenty here to be commended : a good voice , pleasant melodies , clever arrangements and , in among the depression , some light touches of humour : ‘ I cried the Solent , the Tyne , the Severn and the Rhine , The Thames and The Seine over again' . |
| 25 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've had enough ! ’ cried the ringleader , the Spartacus of the Northern Line , ‘ I 'm staying put ! |
| 27 | Unfair , cried the societies . |
| 28 | Thus cried the legions of Islamic fundamentalists in Algiers this week . |
| 29 | ‘ You stupid boy , ’ cried the master . |
| 30 | ‘ Almost all of human drama is there ’ , cried the London Daily Express , |