Sentence examples for upset by something from inspiring English sources

However chose your moment: if the other person is obviously upset by something, wait until things have calmed down.

He said that he knew the Canal+ staff well and they could see that he was upset by something.

I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.

"A girl came to school who was upset by something she saw on the Internet," Mr. Cohen said in a telephone interview, "and these people had in their mind that they were going to do something about it.

When they approved of something, they gently nodded, and when they wanted something, they gently nodded, and when they were upset by something, they gently nodded and then shifted their body weight to indicate a significant change of attitude.

When he began speaking, Mr. Bush quickly drew laughter by remembering how Jackie Robinson, upset by something John F. Kennedy once did, called the president a fine man but said he reserved the right to change his opinion.

I understand that I might once have mildly upset John Prescott by something I had written, but I have no delusions that criticism can do much more.

Not just upset by the news; it was something else, and his reticence made her nervous.

"Many are concerned and upset by the problem, wondering just how something like this could happen here," Mr. Barton said.

"Man says nasty thing on the Internet, nice people get upset by nasty thing, nice people demand something be done about nasty thing, police pursue easy conviction (all the evidence is online after all, and there are a million willing witnesses), nasty man gets convicted and everybody slaps each other on the back for having done their bit.

It stopped seeming that it was something she would be upset by, or ashamed by.