Example sentences of "glance [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
2 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
3 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
4 | Carmichael glances up at the grubby banner , and he shrugs . |
5 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
6 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
7 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
8 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
9 | When I ask our guide who lives there , he glances disapprovingly at the slums . |
10 | Quick glance down at the clear water in the bowl . |
11 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
12 | And passing , glance in at the loo . |
13 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
14 | A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours . |
15 | ( Their activity and philosophy of the past three years are celebrated in an anthology , A glance backward at the future : A book for the pre-modern , published this September . ) |
16 | It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet . |
17 | Rose glanced nervously at the door . |
18 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
19 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
20 | Harry eased the big car past a large furniture van and glanced uneasily at the girl beside him . |
21 | Catesby glanced despairingly at the ceiling ; still , the old steward was summoned and questioned . |
22 | Athelstan bowed , smiled thinly at the rest of the group , glanced despairingly at the snoring Cranston and led Sir Brian down the corridor . |
23 | Horses , gun-dogs and books filled his day , and many a regicide glanced wrathfully at the nonchalant figure of the tall Englishman strolling unconcernedly in the highways and byways of Belgrade . |
24 | Sandra glanced swiftly at the man with the stick , wondering what he had in his pockets . |
25 | He glanced enviously at the suit : plain black , with a waistcoat , four buttons at the cuff , whereas his only had three . |
26 | Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers , then with a heavy heart she gathered them up . |
27 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
28 | She glanced down at the linoleum in despair . |
29 | Yanto was aware of the wind in his face as the instructor glanced down at the flag man again . |
30 | I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger . |