Example sentences of "[det] [subord] a [adj] glance " in BNC.
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1 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
2 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
3 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
4 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
5 | With which she stalked past him and into the hall without so much as a backward glance at Theda , standing by the desk , a look of new hope in her eyes . |
6 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
7 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
8 | Characters casting more than a cursory glance at the extremely distressing scenes here must make a WP test to avoid gaining an Insanity Point . |
9 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
10 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
11 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
12 | Inland , the Annamite Cordillera thrust its purple peaks towards the afternoon sky , but neither Joseph Sherman nor his mother gave more than a passing glance to the spectacular mountain and ocean scenery outside the car . |
13 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
14 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |