Example sentences of "smell of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my jokes when I was young tended to smell of oil rather . |
| 2 | One also wonders whether it is wise to smoke or to smell of perfume when handling horses . |
| 3 | I had expected the room to smell of death , but on account of Mrs Mortimer — or else her apron — the room was dominated by the smell of roasting . |
| 4 | They always seemed to smell of singed feathers when they came back . |
| 5 | They spread out from the Thing like a tide ; panels lit up like little skies full of stars , big lights in the ceiling flickered on , there was a distant banging and fizzing as electricity was woken up , and the air began to smell of thunderstorms . |
| 6 | They even seemed to smell of wild animals . |
| 7 | The room began to smell of feathers and shit . |
| 8 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 9 | I loathed my father 's new house , which seemed always to smell of damp washing , but her visit had clearly enlivened my mother . |
| 10 | I used to smell of the old cows . |
| 11 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
| 12 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
| 13 | In his most persuasive ( but unrepeated ) experiment , he trained a group of pigeons in a loft into which he experimentally made the wind blowing from the south to smell of olive oil , and the wind from the north to smell of turpentine ( another group had the directions of the smells reversed ) . |
| 14 | In his most persuasive ( but unrepeated ) experiment , he trained a group of pigeons in a loft into which he experimentally made the wind blowing from the south to smell of olive oil , and the wind from the north to smell of turpentine ( another group had the directions of the smells reversed ) . |
| 15 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
| 16 | The interior of Armstrong was beginning to smell of wet dogs and that just added to my bad mood . |
| 17 | We have accountants , and we have men who smell of industrial aftershave who call themselves our financial advisers . |
| 18 | ‘ Your plays are very clever , Ben , ’ Richard Burbage said , ‘ but they smell of the schoolbook , do n't they , Will ? ’ |
| 19 | Another says I smell of the sea , like oysters , fresh and salty . ’ |
| 20 | They smell of dry dampness , not a readily marketable perfume in the salons of Europe , but an affirming odour , not of sanctity , nor of history — more of the earth , of the quarries from which they were hewn , to be shaped by men who could cut stone as other monks cut the cloth for their grey robes . |
| 21 | You smell of corianders . |
| 22 | It is said of some speeches that they smell of the lamp . |
| 23 | You smell of clover fields . |
| 24 | You smell of babies bottoms . |
| 25 | You smell of wee ! |
| 26 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
| 27 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 28 | Dark corridors smelling of snuff and dead flowers . |
| 29 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 30 | A strong wind , smelling of incense and radiation , |