Example sentences of "[adv] a cry for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No — just a cry for help . ’ |
| 2 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 3 | that the riots were ‘ a lust for blood ’ , an ‘ orgy of thieving ’ , ‘ a cry for loot and not a cry for help ’ ; |
| 4 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 5 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 6 | She came up once and tried to get out a cry for help to the others standing there , but the laughing gripped her lungs and they thought she was fooling . |
| 7 | They are often a cry for help . |
| 8 | ‘ It wass n't a cry for help I heard . |