Example sentences of "could smell [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate could smell Pears soap and the smell brought back memories of when she had been younger . |
| 2 | It felt warm ; the sun was a raying gold core in the mist , and she could smell heath grass and flowers — vetch , trefoil , loosestrife , camp ion . |
| 3 | He said I thought someone was here he said cos I could smell fag smoke . |
| 4 | Then my sense of smell came into play and I could smell motor oil and if I concentrated , I could feel the cloth wrapped tightly around my head . |
| 5 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 6 | And erm , one day we had friends round , and I went into the loo it stinks of smoke in here , it was really bizarre , and I , I went , and sort of just thought oh , and then I went in again , and I really did smell , and I thought , this is really odd , and so when I came out here I said , did anyone else smell smoke in the ba in the bathroom , and they said oh yeah , I could smell cigarette smoke , and then , it must have just been upstairs , and it wafted down , and in through ours , cos there was no one else really around . |