Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been crying " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a week now the person — or thing — in that study has been crying night and day for some special chemical powders . |
| 2 | They passed each other in the corridor soon afterwards , and each could see that the other had been crying . |
| 3 | The merchant 's long face was even more mournful and the friar was sure the man had been crying . |
| 4 | His mother had been crying as she had rifled the house for money for him , and as she had made sandwiches to put in greaseproof paper because it would be dangerous for him to stop at cafés on his way to the airport . |
| 5 | One training organisation , which had taken a twenty three percent cut in funds in 1990 ninety one , had to take a further twenty percent cut this year , and the people who are worst affected by these cuts were the very people that the Tory Party had been crying crocodile tears over for so long . |