Example sentences of "tears [v-ing] to [pos pn] eyes " in BNC.

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1 All the way home , she practised the words she would speak to Craig Grenfell , she must tell him to leave , to find another place to stay but the feeling of emptiness that swept over her whenever she thought of saying goodbye to him brought tears brimming to her eyes .
2 She jumped up and seized his arm , tears starting to her eyes .
3 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 .
4 The death of Socrates in Plato 's Phaedo is one of the most inspiring stories , and the scholar Scaliger could never read it without tears coming to his eyes .
5 Tears springing to her eyes , she pushed her chair back , rose , and ran out of the dining room .
6 Lucy Templeton groaned aloud , tears springing to her eyes .
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