Example sentences of "fill with tears " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison 's wide trusting blue eyes were filling with tears . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears . |
| 4 | Ellen implored , her eyes filling with tears . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Ash was looking over Janice Rae 's shoulder at me , those grey eyes behind the bright red glasses filling with tears . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Connelly said , his eyes filling with tears of terror . |
| 8 | ‘ Chris wants us to break up , ’ she said , her eyes filling with tears . |
| 9 | Sarah kissed him and nodded , her eyes filling with tears , more in sympathy with the stricken couples around her than on her own account . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry , ’ whispered Rebecca , her eyes filling with tears . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you would be kind to me , ’ said Tess , her eyes filling with tears . |
| 12 | Her eyes filling with tears , she shrugged away as he went to put a gentle hand on her shoulder . |
| 13 | Her eyes suddenly filling with tears , she shook her head . |
| 14 | Bridget felt her eyes filling with tears . |
| 15 | You filled with tears |
| 16 | " Rest assured , Muhammad , you are in your country and with your people and brothers , " he aid to the Shah , whose eyes filled with tears . |
| 17 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |
| 18 | Her eyes filled with tears — whether of shame , frustration , or grief it was difficult to tell . |
| 19 | His bleary eyes filled with tears but he tilted his head back and glared at the top of the tent . |
| 20 | The girls ' eyes filled with tears . |
| 21 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 22 | North listened to this impassively ; when it was over his eyes filled with tears , but these were not necessarily tears of compunction . |
| 23 | ‘ Pilade is a fine child , ’ Mrs Browning said next , and her eyes filled with tears . |
| 24 | Her eyes filled with tears suddenly and she nodded . |
| 25 | And as she spoke , I looked into the troubled face of our Prime Minister and her eyes were filled with tears . |
| 26 | Filled with tears ! |
| 27 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 28 | His eyes filled with tears , tears of rage and frustration . |
| 29 | Kalchu 's eyes filled with tears , and Chola , holding her face in both her hands , was racked with sobbing . |
| 30 | Sarah 's eyes filled with tears , which she allowed him to see before burying her face against his ample knees . |