Example sentences of "glanced [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voices called outside in the yard , and the girl glanced nervously towards the doorway ; with difficulty Mada Joyce pulled the door approximately shut on its rusted hinges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rose glanced nervously at the door . |
| 4 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
| 5 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 6 | He glanced nervously around the smoky bar . |
| 7 | Harry eased the big car past a large furniture van and glanced uneasily at the girl beside him . |
| 8 | As I continued to eat ecstatically , feeling the strength ebbing back , he glanced uneasily into the pen . |
| 9 | He glanced uneasily in the direction of the Wolfwood and then said , ‘ What about Fenella ? ’ |
| 10 | Catesby glanced despairingly at the ceiling ; still , the old steward was summoned and questioned . |
| 11 | Athelstan bowed , smiled thinly at the rest of the group , glanced despairingly at the snoring Cranston and led Sir Brian down the corridor . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | he peered into the envelope as if hoping to find something worth having inside , then glanced swiftly through the letter and having read it flipped it and the envelope , with a gesture of disgust , to the ground . |
| 14 | Sandra glanced swiftly at the man with the stick , wondering what he had in his pockets . |
| 15 | He glanced pointedly in the direction of the mother of Nogai . |
| 16 | He glanced pointedly in the direction of the Sechem . |
| 17 | He glanced enviously at the suit : plain black , with a waistcoat , four buttons at the cuff , whereas his only had three . |
| 18 | Fiennes glanced doubtfully into the room . |
| 19 | Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers , then with a heavy heart she gathered them up . |
| 20 | What was this man — she glanced down to the bottom of the page , to where his signature was scrawled — this man Charles Austin going on about ? |
| 21 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 22 | When we adjourned to the lounge , he glanced down at a newspaper that had been cast aside , commenting in a murmur : ‘ the usual half-finished crossword ! ’ |
| 23 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
| 24 | She glanced down at the linoleum in despair . |
| 25 | Yanto was aware of the wind in his face as the instructor glanced down at the flag man again . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I glanced down at the kitchen . |
| 28 | The boy glanced down at the dog and looked up almost defiantly . |
| 29 | He glanced down at the label on the table to check . |
| 30 | Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood . |