Example sentences of "cry for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , another cry for help . |
| 2 | Or as a ‘ cry for help ’ to attract attention . |
| 3 | In a statement read to the court , Shooter described his crime as ‘ a cry for help from someone who could no longer handle the pressures of life ’ . |
| 4 | Just the odd cry for help . |
| 5 | Afterwards , everybody asked themselves : Was it a cry for help ? |
| 6 | If your dog has n't presented a problem for years , is getting old but still appears to be healthy , and starts to display antisocial behaviour — check it out with your vet before you start to punish him or her for what might be a cry for help . |
| 7 | I suppose underneath it was a cry for help . |
| 8 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | that the riots were ‘ a lust for blood ’ , an ‘ orgy of thieving ’ , ‘ a cry for loot and not a cry for help ’ ; |
| 11 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 12 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 13 | A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders . |
| 14 | ‘ It wass n't a cry for help I heard . |
| 15 | The deep-rooted need to express grief is part of all religions and perhaps the Protestant churches should see these notices as a cry for help . |
| 16 | The first two could be a threat and a cry for help . |
| 17 | They are often a cry for help . |
| 18 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |
| 19 | PLEASE heed this impassioned cry for help from a far outpost of Active Rugby Enthusiasts ! |
| 20 | Here , a 31-year-old fitness instructor reveals how she is suffering the same agonies that drove Joanna to make such a dramatic cry for help . |
| 21 | It was there where , in a fit of depression , she hurled herself down the stairs in a cry for help . |
| 22 | You do n't have to be a psychoanalyst to divine the cry for help behind such statements as : ‘ I 'd like to find out how Jack Nicklaus handled all this when he was young' |
| 23 | He saw the counterculture as a desperate cry for help from the captured sons and daughters of the Evil One ; a cry , he feels , which went virtually unheeded by many Christians who saw only the law-breaking or iconoclasm and failed to see the spiritual hunger . |
| 24 | Deanes says it 's a cry for help . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This was a cry for help , a last desperate throw of the dice to woo back his wife , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 26 | It might have been a cry for help — we just do not know . ’ |
| 27 | The social worker whose aim is to effect change in response to some cry for help , will try to ensure that the change occurs in such a way that it is manageable for the system as a whole . |
| 28 | Some would say it was a cry for help . |
| 29 | There has already been some response to this cry for help . |
| 30 | ‘ I am always misunderstood ’ is another common cry for help . |