Example sentences of "he smiled at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled at the Bookman . |
| 2 | He smiled at the boy . |
| 3 | Fred had to agree , and he smiled at the passion in his pretty young wife 's voice . |
| 4 | He smiled at the huddles of aimless , olive-skinned men standing outside the couscous bars . |
| 5 | He smiled at the ease of it ; one minute the fish was dying , the next it was in its element . |
| 6 | He smiled at the other man , then smiled at Beth , then at Cissie who , struck with horror at the thin man 's strikingly unpleasant face , pressed herself closer to Beth . |
| 7 | He smiled at the fancifulness of the thought , then caught his breath , seeing how her eyes flashed as she laughed at something her cousin had whispered in her ear . |
| 8 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 9 | From the blazing screen he smiled at the proprietor of the Artillery-man 's Friend and at his mother and Rose-Ann and his aunt the dressmaker and at his father , wherever he was . |
| 10 | He smiled at the old-age pensioner and wagged his head . |
| 11 | He smiled at the servants . |
| 12 | He smiled at the gasp produced by his revelation . |
| 13 | He smiled at the memory . |
| 14 | He smiled at the secretary . |
| 15 | His gaze was inscrutable as he smiled at the American couple . |
| 16 | ‘ I was rather wondering , Uncle , ’ he smiled at the man who had kept a fatherly eye on him from the age of ten , ‘ how you felt about serving some of that excellent champagne I know you have in your cellar . ’ |
| 17 | Though , ’ he smiled at the girl , ‘ Mistress Philippa and Geoffrey had best stay together . |