Example sentences of "[adj] glance at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On your right glance at the windows of the palace of 1493 . |
| 2 | The club then proceeded St Aldhelm 's Head and later tea was taken at Purbeck House , with a hasty glance at the treasures there . |
| 3 | An appraising glance at the assembled company tells her how to begin , and the lesson advances spontaneously yet logically to a physically and artistically satisfying climax and conclusion . |
| 4 | Casting a disgusted glance at the buckled trike and at the throng pouring past him , south-bound , Grimm trotted northwards after the Assassin . |
| 5 | She cast a quick , cautious glance at the little girl , fearing that she might have overheard , but Kirsty had slid down from her chair and was quite clearly totally absorbed in watching the antics of the hotel cat through the window . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't , ’ The rare , grave smile winged her face , then she reclaimed her empty jug with a reproachful glance at the red-beard , and continued on her way . |
| 7 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
| 8 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 9 | She turned to take a reassuring glance at the gondola , but it was no longer there . |
| 10 | Now , as a brief glance at the current catalogue will show , he is one of the most recorded composers of his generation . |
| 11 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 12 | She gave a brief glance at the screen , dropped her jaw by at least a metre , and walked backwards , first into the back wall , and then slowly and hypnotically down our aisle , past our row — in spite of our waving and hissing cries of ‘ Mummm ! ’ — then backwards again , eyes never leaving the screen , and past us in the other direction . |
| 13 | But the Substitute caught his movement and , with a quick sidelong smile and a rueful glance at the offending object , he leaned back in his seat and said solemnly : ‘ It 's my only vice . ’ |
| 14 | From a swift glance at the back of a person 's head I can at once estimate the intelligence and sexuality of that person . |
| 15 | The Captain could n't avoid a swift glance at the shiny dome flanked by two tufts of grey hair . |
| 16 | While , at a superficial level , the titles might well mislead , a swift glance at the contents is reassuring . |
| 17 | He cast an agonised glance at the open door across the landing where four small figures stood watching with large dusky eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ That is the noisiest frog I 've ever had in this laboratory , ’ snapped Miss Hardbroom with a piercing glance at the jar . |
| 19 | A quick glance at the seven-layer decision-making ladder of the OSI , makes plain the potential for querulous technical in-fighting over a near-interminable period . |
| 20 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 21 | And even a quick glance at the SDLP 's history shows that the Labour interest is not its number one priority . |
| 22 | A quick glance at the Loran indicator . |
| 23 | He was told that no answer was possible because no statistics were kept , though a quick glance at the minutes of the RCM executive would have shown that the conversion rate to Christianity was well into double figures . |
| 24 | Shooting a quick glance at the oil pressure gauge , I raised an enquiring eyebrow . |
| 25 | A quick glance at the recipes in this book should delight the gastronomically adventurous . |
| 26 | And if you fail to spot these , a quick glance at the contents of his bookshelf gives it away . |
| 27 | A quick glance at the rules for inspiration : ‘ … the essayists who can move between the worlds of nature and the arts … |
| 28 | We move on to M4 and Z. A quick glance at the unc table for Z7 shows that both hold in Z7 . |
| 29 | Proof of Richards 's analysis comes from a quick glance at the brochures of two London-area superstores : an IBM PS/1 Family Pack 286 desktop computer sells at the new Business Superstore ( on the A40 , in Park Royal , northwest London ) for £699 plus VAT . |
| 30 | As Cynthia fell silent , the lawyer stole a quick glance at the dying woman and , shocked at the wastage of so young a life , he hastened to lighten Dorothy 's obvious distress . |