reduce somebody to tears
make somebody cry

Not for anything would she let him make her cry.

He sat up and saw what was making her cry.

She had no doubt that it would make her cry now.

Make her cry, and you could have a serious problem in the back alley.

"What are you doing to that poor child to make her cry so?"

It might have been enough to make her cry, if she was the sort of girl who cried.

It was a thought sad enough to make her cry.

How could he ever do anything to make her cry?

Without a doubt, it was the only one that had ever made her cry.

At last she had a car, and it made her cry.