Example sentences of "glance [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 6 | When I ask our guide who lives there , he glances disapprovingly at the slums . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And passing , glance in at the loo . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rose glanced nervously at the door . |
| 13 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 14 | Harry eased the big car past a large furniture van and glanced uneasily at the girl beside him . |
| 15 | Catesby glanced despairingly at the ceiling ; still , the old steward was summoned and questioned . |
| 16 | Sandra glanced swiftly at the man with the stick , wondering what he had in his pockets . |
| 17 | He glanced enviously at the suit : plain black , with a waistcoat , four buttons at the cuff , whereas his only had three . |
| 18 | Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers , then with a heavy heart she gathered them up . |
| 19 | He glanced down at the basket of fresh-baked bread on her arm . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 21 | I glanced down at the kitchen . |
| 22 | Lorton took a Swan Vesta matchbox from his pocket and glanced down at the compass . |
| 23 | He glanced down at the girl beside him . |
| 24 | Still keeping an eye on the two men , he glanced down at the girl . |
| 25 | Her mind still racing , she glanced down at the map on the passenger seat and then headed towards the road that would take her to Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 26 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
| 27 | Yanto was aware of the wind in his face as the instructor glanced down at the flag man again . |
| 28 | Robyn glanced down at the chopping-board ; cooking for him would be bad enough , but others ? |
| 29 | As he glanced down at the menu in his hand , the one with the pictures drawn down the side , she could have sworn he was trying very hard not to smile . |
| 30 | Theodora glanced down at the floor . |