Example sentences of "[noun] 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 And because Odette had been crying , Liam had been crying too .
3 They passed each other in the corridor soon afterwards , and each could see that the other had been crying .
4 The merchant 's long face was even more mournful and the friar was sure the man had been crying .
5 Then she saw that Peter had been crying and that he had taken the trouble to wear a clean , white shirt .
6 Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever .
7 And because Odette had been crying , Liam had been crying too .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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