Example sentences of "cry the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mother , Mother ! ’ cries the pierced helmet . |
| 2 | We ca n't sell out , ’ cries the frealistic kid . |
| 3 | ‘ Sentence first , verdict afterwards , ’ cries the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland . |
| 4 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 5 | Claudia was crying the other morning and I caught Luke hugging her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We must get all this ! ’ cried the young producer to his assistant , driving his Rover over the moors from Newcastle and pointing to the horizon . |
| 8 | ‘ Feminine , feminine ! ’ cried the manlier sort of lady novelist . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh ! ’ cried the good lady , shocked , flustered and titillated . |
| 10 | ‘ Cross with you ? ’ cried the first duck . |
| 11 | ‘ Disintegrator will not respond , sir , ’ cried the first . |
| 12 | ‘ What ? ’ cried the great dragon , his deep brass-gonged voice ringing out and causing several of the gems to tinkle off the jade pagoda . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes ! ’ cried the Great Supremo . |
| 14 | ‘ Officer , he tried to murder me ! ’ cried the other man . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh mother ! ’ cried the poor girl , her heart breaking . |
| 16 | Extree ! ’ cried the freckle-faced Mickey Rooney . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're not going to pay you any more interest , ’ cried the three little piggies in unison . |
| 18 | You can scoot off now , ’ cried the little man . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh Mrs Lynde , ’ cried the little girl , ‘ I 'm very sorry . |
| 20 | ‘ Bloody hell , ’ cried the Special Forces commander . |
| 21 | ‘ Nay , nay ! ’ cried the agonised voice . |
| 22 | ‘ This is a fine house of my son 's , sir , ’ cried the old man , nodding back at me . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're right , Mr Utterson ! ’ cried the old servant . |
| 24 | ‘ Major stands firm against migrants , ’ cried the Daily Mail . |
| 25 | I 'll punish you one day , remember that ! ’ cried the broken man . |
| 26 | But I can not marry you ! ’ cried the sweet and honest voice miserably . |
| 27 | Inside the coach I cried the bitterest tears of my life . |