Example sentences of "eyes fill with [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes filled with tears as he turned towards Madge . |
| 2 | Dawn 's eyes filled with hatred as she glared at Sophie , and she was about to say more when Helen said quietly , ‘ Come into the office . |
| 3 | I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders at her , trying not to look into the child 's large eyes filling with tears as he gazed petulantly at me , his underlip thrust out . |
| 4 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 5 | Anne felt her eyes fill with tears as she looked at Helen and Tony kneeling at the altar during their Nuptial Mass : Helen so tiny and ethereal and Tony proud and protective beside her , looking at each other with love . |