Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were tears in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was smiling , although there were tears in her grey eyes . |
| 2 | I had not realized until then that there were tears in my eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'm avoiding Broad Street because of the cranes , ’ Meg replied , and Lee saw that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll deal with that , ’ said Anthony , noticing that there were tears in Comfort 's big grey eyes , ‘ but I want you to stay here with her . |
| 5 | Anne looked at me and I could see , even in the state I was in , that there were tears in her eyes . |
| 6 | Miss Phoebe 's pitted cheeks were quite pink and there were tears in her eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ I see that for all your fine words you are much like the rest , ’ and there were tears in her eyes when she turned away from him . |
| 8 | They stung , as they were meant to , and there were tears in her eyes when he roughly turned her over . |
| 9 | Mrs Richards turned and looked at her , and there were tears in the pale blue eyes . |
| 10 | But there were tears in his eyes too . |
| 11 | But there were tears in Alexandra 's eyes and a lot of the older people had stopped talking to watch . |
| 12 | But there were tears in her eyes . |