Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] glance " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Characters casting more than a cursory glance at the extremely distressing scenes here must make a WP test to avoid gaining an Insanity Point . |
| 6 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
| 7 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
| 8 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 9 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |
| 10 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 11 | Miss Phoebe said , after a strengthening glance at Jess , whose curiosity was making her linger . |
| 12 | ‘ Shit , ’ I said to myself , and put my hand under my chin just as Paul , after a quick glance in my direction , started to attack the nose of the bomb . |
| 13 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now , as a brief glance at the current catalogue will show , he is one of the most recorded composers of his generation . |
| 20 | For mailing labels , that 's OK , but for disk labels , particularly 3.5″ , there is a need for a 90 degree and 180 degree rotation — this applies to labels for any other use as well , as a quick glance round the kitchen cupboards will show . |
| 21 | She rather suspected that Vendelin Gajdusek thought so too when a swift glance to his face showed a hint of a smile was playing around his mouth . |
| 22 | 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 . |