Example sentences of "to [pos pn] eyes [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears come to my eyes when I sing songs about saying goodbye , or faithless lovers , or anything like that . |
| 2 | Sandy , a visitor , told us : " It brought tears to my eyes when I heard that the house would be closed for renovation . |
| 3 | It was n't the wind that brought tears to my eyes as I turned to walk along the cliff path . |
| 4 | Tears came to my eyes as I thought that this was my and Miss Louise 's fault . |
| 5 | That brought tears to my eyes and I turned away so that Jeff would n't be able to see them , then fought them back . |
| 6 | Tears came to my eyes and to Bruno 's , but my mother put on a brave face . |
| 7 | Katherine had barely had time to pull off her wire-framed pince-nez and press the palms of her hands to her eyes before Gerard had returned . |
| 8 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 9 | But she put it to her eyes and brought it away streaked black and green . |
| 10 | The punchline actually brought tears to her eyes and caused Isa Peebles to laugh so hard she almost fell off her stool . |
| 11 | Tears came to her eyes and , as she entered the kitchen , she stumbled a little . |
| 12 | The photograph sprang to her eyes and startled her . |
| 13 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 14 | She was very tired ; an uncharacteristic wave of sentimentality — of pity , almost , for all living things , brought tears to her eyes and made her want to clasp her arms round Caro . |
| 15 | Love was pouring through her and she could not stop it , lying beneath him , helpless to prevent the tears which sprung to her eyes and rolled over her cheeks . |
| 16 | His eyes rested on her beautifully shaped mouth , then went up to her eyes and held her look steadily before he flicked his glance down to her sensible shoes . |
| 17 | Tears rose haphazardly to her eyes as she watched the sequence of silent film Alexei showed her in the now darkened room . |
| 18 | Tucking the little girls up under their light sheets , she could n't prevent tears from coming to her eyes when one of the children placed her thin arms around her neck . |
| 19 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 20 | He put his hand up to his eyes and squeezed them together . |
| 21 | It is as foreign to , to your eyes as the Russian script would be . |
| 22 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |