Example sentences of "tear [prep] their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came out of the water , they all had tears in their eyes . |
| 2 | The troops had tears in their eyes as Des was awarded his medal for pet of the year . |
| 3 | Many people were said to have had tears in their eyes at hearing the Führer 's voice again . |
| 4 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 5 | The rescuers fell silent as they listened to the hymn from deep in the earth and few who heard it were without tears in their eyes or lumps in their throats . |
| 6 | Then the people moved aside and we passed through the smiling , cheering crowd , some of whom I noticed had tears in their eyes . |
| 7 | So they sang the old hymns with tears in their eyes and an ache of pride in their hearts . |
| 8 | It was a moving song , and I could see people with tears in their eyes , but I kept wondering why I could n't feel anything . |
| 9 | The doctors read these thankyou notes with tears in their eyes , especially when gratitude is expressed in a childish hand . |
| 10 | Lourdes and Ana , I notice , have tears in their eyes and keep crossing themselves . |
| 11 | There was a poignant scene , customers had tears in their eyes . |
| 12 | An elderly couple had tears in their eyes as they read the cards on the flowers for the Bulger family . |
| 13 | On the platform he Lenin had been confronted by men come back from prison or exile , who greeted him with tears on their cheeks … |
| 14 | Heavy slate slabs ran round the walls — on some pans of milk were set and left to stand until cream rose to the surface , on others there were pounds of butter , ridged by wooden " butter-hands " and stamped with swans , which sweated cold salt like beads or tears to their surfaces . |