Example sentences of "[noun] smile [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hari smiled ruefully at the thought of Craig marrying her and yet there was a sadness deep inside her , a longing that she knew would never be fulfilled . |
| 2 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 3 | Rincewind smiled politely at the stranger and tried a few words of Chimeran . |
| 4 | Only after his ageing parents had died and he was left to manage the dining rooms did he begin to look around for a wife , and Fred smiled bitterly at the memory . |
| 5 | Joe smiled tolerantly at the man who had made himself his friend . |
| 6 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 7 | The man smiled gratefully at the commander . |
| 8 | Rex lay on the bed smiling wistfully at the ceiling . |
| 9 | Pascoe smiled bleakly at the appeal to his erudition . |
| 10 | Replacing the receiver , Sophie smiled triumphantly at the realisation that she must have undercut Robert Sheldrake 's fees . |
| 11 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 12 | Sheldukher smiled approvingly at the Doctor 's witticisms . |
| 13 | Melissa smiled faintly at the recollection . |
| 14 | There are photographs of him taken on this and other trips : Eliot smiling sleepily at the camera , wearing a white cap and sunglasses , smoking a cigar and wearing a pink shirt and blue pullover . |