Example sentences of "[pers pn] glance [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time that I passed the spot , over the next year or two , I glanced quickly at the building , then scooted past . |
| 2 | She glanced hesitantly at the door . |
| 3 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 4 | Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard . |
| 5 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 6 | The car skidded a little , came straight ; she glanced forward at the road , saw the corner and the trees . |
| 7 | ‘ When I said I was tired she glanced sideways at the bed and hinted she was fairly tired herself . |
| 8 | She glanced irritably at the waiter , barely resisting the urge , it seemed , to hurry him up so that her companion could continue . |
| 9 | The instant they landed , she glanced across at the paper . |
| 10 | She glanced across at the Laboratory clock . |
| 11 | They glanced curiously at the line of official vehicles which drove along the boulevard running along the lower ridges of the city , through a gateway and down in a series of long , lazy curves , dropping over two hundred metres to the valley floor . |
| 12 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 13 | When I ask our guide who lives there , he glances disapprovingly at the slums . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He glanced again at the wallet . |
| 16 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 17 | He glanced enviously at the suit : plain black , with a waistcoat , four buttons at the cuff , whereas his only had three . |
| 18 | He glanced quickly at the hospitaller 's angry face . |
| 19 | He glanced irritably at the man 's corpse , still on the slab . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said at last and he glanced across at the table . |
| 21 | ‘ My lady , ’ he said , ‘ before Sir Brian or Sir Fulke , ’ he glanced contemptuously at the girl 's uncle who still sat slumped in his chair , ‘ challenge me to a duel , I apologise profusely . ’ |