1. I was awakened before cockcrow by the sound of distant rifles.

2. I was woken up by that humorous cockcrow .

3. But as soon as they heard the first cockcrow, they quickly got back into the box.

4. The farmer gets up as soon as he hear the first cockcrow.

5. Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.

6. The mother is in the habit of waking her children up at cockcrow.

7. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning at cockcrow .