Example sentences of "[verb] to my eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read it every time I wanted to think of home — the tears used to come to my eyes . ’ |
| 2 | As I write this article , film of starving children in Somalia is the most recent image of childhood to be presented to my eyes . |
| 3 | Tears came to my eyes as I thought that this was my and Miss Louise 's fault . |
| 4 | I was so offended by her behaviour towards me that tears came to my eyes . |
| 5 | I was so hurt by her amazement that tears came to my eyes . |
| 6 | Tears came to my eyes and to Bruno 's , but my mother put on a brave face . |
| 7 | Tears came to my eyes — truly surprising me . |
| 8 | The following letter , written later in 1955 , seems to be severely restricted to my eyes , but I think this restriction was lifted when , after Ivy 's death , the letters were sent to Mrs Spurling : |
| 9 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 10 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 11 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
| 12 | Tears come to my eyes when I sing songs about saying goodbye , or faithless lovers , or anything like that . |