Example sentences of "cry at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 2 | For instance , he might burst out laughing on being told of a tragedy , or cry at joyful news . |
| 3 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 4 | I wanted to throw up , pass out , scream and cry at the same time . |
| 5 | We cry at both ends of life , while the doctor watches . |
| 6 | People who would never see , feel , dance , draw , cry at music , feel the world , the west wind . |
| 7 | I always cry at the doctor 's , have done for years . |
| 8 | For Miss Lavender would not , perhaps , have cared , Miss Lavender would never have cried at her own funeral . |
| 9 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 10 | A whole week and he 's never cried at nights . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 13 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 14 | He told Sadat that his officers had cried at Teheran airport and begged him to leave . |
| 15 | The girl who used to cry at criticism was now fireproof . |
| 16 | She now grinned at him as she pushed him , only to cry at him under her breath as he lifted the teapot , ‘ Leave it ! |
| 17 | I 'll tell you one — yes , one for El-ahrairah to cry at . |
| 18 | After a succession of these experiences their capacity to cry at all may even dry up , along with the relationship between themselves and their partner . |
| 19 | The grief can be displaced and a man unable to cry at his father 's funeral may find himself crying for days three months later when his spaniel dies . |
| 20 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |
| 21 | Okay what happened was , I had no emotional reactions to anything , I wanted to cry at something on T V , I could n't any more , I could n't cry . |
| 22 | Fran sat back in the seat , staring unseeingly out of the window , wondering why she should feel the most ridiculous urge to cry at such evidence of Luke Calder 's attitude to life . |
| 23 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |
| 24 | I have often heard her crying at night . |
| 25 | But the apothecary had been right , and by morning Anna was almost like her old self , crying at last to be fed instead of turning her head away . |
| 26 | Suddenly everyone had gone except for one man , the show 's principal backer , who sat crying at the table . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We are crying at the deaths and hope the injured will soon recover . ’ |
| 28 | Later in the night , as she lay crying at his side , he bade her for God 's sake to stop snivelling , so that he might get to sleep . |
| 29 | ‘ Stop crying at once . |
| 30 | Someone was squealing and crying at the same time , as if caught in a trap . |