Example sentences of "he could smell " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Simon was so close that he could smell his aftershave and the leather of his coat . |
| 2 | When he could smell her perfume and hear the soft rustle of her skirt , he closed the door fully and held his breath . |
| 3 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 4 | His head was between his knees and he could smell the blood . |
| 5 | When he got home that evening he could smell that Val was in a mood . |
| 6 | As he listened he could smell the man ; and he could hear that the song was almost turning into a sob . |
| 7 | Twilight left , as if he could smell the storm coming . |
| 8 | Then he thought he could smell Donald 's feet . |
| 9 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 10 | And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds . |
| 11 | He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy . |
| 12 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 13 | Sweat had stained his shirt and as Doyle approached he could smell the effort on the man 's body . |
| 14 | Worse still , he could smell its smell . |
| 15 | He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense , the faint acrid smoke of the candle . |
| 16 | By this time he could smell the hydraulic fluid . |
| 17 | The Dragoon General seized the Colonel 's uniform jacket and dragged the man close so that he could smell the General 's garlic and brandy flavoured breath . |
| 18 | If anyone cut themselves , he could smell the scent of blood and would scamper towards it . |
| 19 | But he was still so close that he could smell the perfume of patchouli on the corpse 's moustache . |
| 20 | Mingled with the brimstone smell of burned powder he fancied that he could smell the perfume of roses from the Residency garden , pruned this year by musket fire . |
| 21 | He needed a bath and quickly , he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin . |
| 22 | He could smell the copper stench of blood on his breath and wondered about internal injuries . |
| 23 | The woman came down the remaining stairs and stood before Lee , so close that he could smell the perfume — expensive and subtle — off her . |
| 24 | True , rabbits could not eat these plants : he could smell that . |
| 25 | He could smell the man . |
| 26 | He could smell it on him . |
| 27 | He could smell her fear . |
| 28 | He could smell the drink ; it had obviously been a heavy session . |
| 29 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 30 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |