Example sentences of "cries for help " in BNC.
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| 1 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 2 | I think we 'd best not speak about paper darts and cries for help . |
| 3 | Who would hear his cries for help ? |
| 4 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 5 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 6 | But when the narrative is rape , and the sounds of pleasure are preceded by cries for help from an unwilling victim , then the messages are mixed indeed . |
| 7 | Later on he would utter cries for help and expect to be nursed back to health by sympathetic doctors , demanding attention as a substitute for love and taking masochistic pleasure in its denial . |
| 8 | Despite cries for help and shouted warnings that some of the prisoners were suffocating to death , the cell door was not opened until two hours later . |
| 9 | A boy passing by homewards from the pictures heard his cries for help . |
| 10 | Mirror agony aunt Marje Proops told the magazine her mailbag includes many more cries for help about debt than pleas for advice on orgasms . |
| 11 | When we heard screams and cries for help , we both set off ‘ hot foot ’ thinking someone was injured . |
| 12 | Many social workers fail to visit on a regular preventive basis and requests for assistance or cries for help are often ignored . |
| 13 | A number of friendly faces appeared in response to her cries for help and one , Dave , took control . |
| 14 | ‘ My Cries for Help ’ |
| 15 | As Diana has since told friends : ‘ They were desperate cries for help . |
| 16 | René Beauchemin comes out of a washroom and sees the students running and hears cries for help within the classroom . |
| 17 | Police at Carrickfergus station , near the waterfront , heard cries for help after the 36ft Moonraker , called Nimrod , got into difficulties . |
| 18 | ‘ Half a dozen cries for help that would have had me losing sleep and tearing out my hair . |
| 19 | Screams and desperate cries for help filled the streets . |
| 20 | She believes her mother 's cries for help were n't taken seriously because she was a psychiatric patient . |
| 21 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 22 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 23 | And the cries for help are often not heard until headlines are briefly filled with the story of another body being dragged from the River Foyle . |
| 24 | These ‘ messages ’ are cries for help from children who are obviously in great distress . |