Example sentences of "smile [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ooh la la , ’ said Nour , looking up to smile directly at me with the triumph of the creature who knows himself to be irresistible . |
| 2 | She smiled down at him in a funny way , stroked his head , touched his cheek with the back of her fingers . |
| 3 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 4 | He smiled down at her in a drunken , rather disquieting sort of way . |
| 5 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 6 | He smiled back at her with a look of sad , Portuguese love in his expression . |
| 7 | Charles 's earliest memory is playing quietly on the floor with a train set while his mother sat sobbing on the edge of the bed , his father smiling weakly at him in a forlorn attempt to reassure his son that everything was all right . |
| 8 | And mummy 's smiling in at him from the outside , look she 's hanging the washing out pretending not to notice what 's going on . |
| 9 | She was standing and smiling down at them from an upstairs window . |
| 10 | " Coming out to play ? " he said , smiling up at her in the sunlight . |
| 11 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |