Example sentences of "tears [prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hesitantly , Victoria stood up , wiping the tears off her cheeks with the back of her hands . |
| 2 | The doorbell rang , and scrubbing the tears off her cheeks with the back of her hand , she marched to the door and yanked it open . |
| 3 | She smiled tightly , feeling the hot sting of tears behind her lids . |
| 4 | She squeezed her eyes shut tightly , feeling the sting of tears behind her eyelids . |
| 5 | A lump rose in her throat and she felt the sharp sting of tears behind her eyelids . |
| 6 | Juliet felt the prick of tears behind her eyelids . |
| 7 | She had to pause before she could speak because there were tears behind her eyes , her voice would be clogged with them . |
| 8 | To her horror Rory felt the sting of tears behind her eyes and looked away helplessly . |
| 9 | Unable to give her anything but the bitter regret which struck out at him afresh , raising a sting of tears behind his eyes , an abominable tightness in his chest . |
| 10 | For a boss , in fact , he was a very human man , who had hardly tried to hide the tears behind his eyes as he had stepped into the Mercedes earlier . |
| 11 | He could scarcely see for the blur of tears behind his spectacles , but he bent to investigate a glint of metal among the dust . |
| 12 | Sniffing and wiping away her tears with her fists like a child , she climbed out and hastily dragged on her dressing-gown . |
| 13 | Acting with the flair of a seasoned thespian , he forced tears into his eyes as he spoke again , in a quavering voice . |
| 14 | Me mother gets up at five o'clock with tears upon her cheeks , |
| 15 | She licked the salty tears from her lips and , taking a tissue from the box by the bed , blew her nose loudly . |
| 16 | Laura wiped tears from her eyes . |
| 17 | The woman stopped speaking , blinked back the tears from her eyes and swallowed before continuing . |
| 18 | It was then that the lump in her throat would break and spill the tears from her eyes and cause her to make choking sounds which she did not try to prevent , knowing they would not penetrate Mrs Aggie 's deep snoring . |
| 19 | ‘ Why do you hate me ? ’ she asked them , still managing to keep the tears from her eyes . |
| 20 | Cynthia wiped the tears from her eyes . |
| 21 | In the end , wiping the tears from her eyes , she giggled weakly ; " I went back to bed . |
| 22 | She brushed the tears from her eyes and took stock of her position . |
| 23 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 24 | She blew her nose and wiped the tears from her eyes . |
| 25 | She blinked a sudden and totally illogical misting of tears from her eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't leave you alone for five minutes , can I ? ’ he added , taking out a large white handkerchief and carefully wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's I who have been a fool — for five intolerable , hideously long years , ’ he added softly , gently wiping the tears from her eyes before covering her upturned face with butterfly-light kisses that made her heart sing for joy . |
| 28 | Instead of simply handing his mother the handkerchief , he held her chin with one hand and wiped the tears from her cheeks . |
| 29 | A dry hot breeze whipped her hair and the tears from her cheeks . |
| 30 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |