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The phrase "start to tear" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
You could use it when describing a situation in which something begins to tear (or is in the process of tearing). For example: The child started to tear the wrapping paper off of the present in anticipation.
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She did not start to tear up until she began talking about Lorena Ochoa.
Inside, audiences start to tear up as soon as they hear the overture, even before they meet the men and women stationed in the remote islands of the New Hebrides.
A few hours later we were in the sixth row at the fan-shaped Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, where we learned how true it is, as Rich writes, that audiences start to tear up as soon as they hear the overture, even before they meet the men and women stationed in the remote islands of the New Hebrides.
I still start to tear up when I hear 'Hail to the chief' played.
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"I can be watching the news and they'll show something really nice like a guy proposing to this girlfriend at a ballgame, and I start to tear up.
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(He starts to tear up).
The Harts are just starting to tear their levees down.
Standing there in Carolina Herrera's office, I started to tear up.
"When I saw that, I just started to tear my remaining hair out," Reij told me.
"It's starting to tear the fabric of our community apart".
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