Example sentences of "smiling [adj] the time " in BNC.
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1 | Blade , right , amiable enough bloke , Lewisham , all that , smiling all the time , may as well be wearing carpet slippers onstage instead of the uniform open-mouthed trainers — but what throwback tosh he spouts between songs . |
2 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
3 | Anyone who entered the prison had to pay a fee and Athelstan recollected , that one of his parishioners , too poor to pay , had been beaten up for his poverty whilst Fitzosbert had stood by , smiling all the time . |
4 | Smiling all the time . |
5 | He had been attracted to a young lady who lived with her mother ; he called on them constantly , smiling all the time , but never saying what he was after ; with the inevitable result that the damsel got tired of her tortoise " , and gave her hand to a brisker suitor . |