Example sentences of "it taste of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I spoon some health and vitality into my mouth ; it tastes of sawdust .
2 ‘ Have some of my hock : it tastes of furniture polish . ’
3 When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water .
4 This cigarette tasted different ; it was a Gauloise , and it tasted of France , as pungent , as unacceptably alien as that knotty sausage .
5 It tasted of petrol , mixed with creosote and hair oil .
6 There was no sugar on it , but it tasted of salt .
7 A woman in a provincial restaurant ate a steak and complained that it tasted of cardboard .
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