Example sentences of "the tears [prep] [pron] " 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 | The tears on her face were a different colour now . |
| 4 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's because he does n't know how much I 've suffered , ’ she answered quietly , turning away to hide the tears on her face . |
| 6 | Frowning at the sight of the tears on my cheeks , he asked me , |
| 7 | ( The part of the man being bitten by the lion on the left is enough to bring the tears to anyone 's eyes ; I wonder if the sculptor would have liked to have done that to someone he knew ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He bent and kissed the tears in her eyes , resting his lips in their hollows . |
| 10 | She threw the diary on to the breakfast bar and Kate could hear the tears in her voice . |
| 11 | Finn opened his arms as if to embrace her but she was still holding the tears in her eyes with her fists . |
| 12 | Julie could see the tears in her eyes as she re-read the sheet of paper , touching her dead husband 's name with her fingers as she read . |
| 13 | she heard Emilia sniff and saw the tears in her eyes . |
| 14 | She could hardly thank them for the tears in her eyes . |
| 15 | Nathan looked from the jelly on Dad 's hand to Dad 's face , and saw the tears in his eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ Why , here 's my mother home at last , ’ he said , and came smiling to meet her , putting forth the child by the hand to her , a little clumsily because he could not see well for the tears in his eyes . |
| 17 | Leaning her head back kept the tears inside her eyes . |
| 18 | He wiped her face , licked the tears from her . |
| 19 | The woman stopped speaking , blinked back the tears from her eyes and swallowed before continuing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do you hate me ? ’ she asked them , still managing to keep the tears from her eyes . |
| 22 | Cynthia wiped the tears from her eyes . |
| 23 | Instead of simply handing his mother the handkerchief , he held her chin with one hand and wiped the tears from her cheeks . |
| 24 | In the end , wiping the tears from her eyes , she giggled weakly ; " I went back to bed . |
| 25 | She brushed the tears from her eyes and took stock of her position . |
| 26 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 27 | She blew her nose and wiped the tears from her eyes . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | A dry hot breeze whipped her hair and the tears from her cheeks . |