Example sentences of "she smiled at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled at the thought ; the next seven days to the interview seemed almost endless in the long hot summer of 1906 . |
| 2 | She smiled at the look on my face . |
| 3 | She smiled at the child . |
| 4 | She smiled at the nurse , or rather , her own smile beamed out to glide over the nurse , over the island of light that hung above her bed , the box with the socket that jacked her into magic . |
| 5 | She smiled at the girl , who smiled back . |
| 6 | She smiled at the baker too , rather warmly , not for the sake of Saturday 's bread bought cheap on Mondays but because his wife detested the Irish in general and that " bold , brazen strumpet from the top of St Jude's ' very much in particular . |
| 7 | She smiled at the stewardess with real friendliness but she need n't have bothered because the answering smile was strictly professional . |
| 8 | Her room was small but nicely furnished , and she smiled at the sight of a posy of flowers in a vase on the dressing-table . |
| 9 | She smiled at the ticket collector . |
| 10 | ( Comrade Andrew had appeared powerfully before Alice , and she smiled at the image . ) |
| 11 | She smiled at the remembrance . |
| 12 | She smiled at the slatterns too — why not ? — most of them living a little lower down the street , who , for one reason or another , had lost all taste for building edifices of any description , hanging on by the skin of such teeth as they had left , to a precarious existence of borrowing today to pay what one owed from yesterday and hoping that tomorrow would somehow take care of itself . |
| 13 | She smiled at the Bishop . |