Example sentences of "glanced [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an old cotton gown of striped dimity stood Theda , just outside on the shallow step , so that the bright sun glanced off the uncovered copper hair , which was piled untidily on top of her head , a few strands breaking loose and waving into the bare expanse of pale , glowing flesh above her bosom . |
| 2 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 3 | He glanced about the assembled company . |
| 4 | Shielding the flame carefully from the draught sweeping in through the open door , Isabel glanced about the single room . |
| 5 | He glanced for a brief moment at Graham 's heavy body and closed face , and looked away , feeling a little sick . |
| 6 | As she closed the door she glanced through the narrowing gap and saw Nathan toss down his pen , rest his elbows on the chart and rub his face . |
| 7 | She touched Joanna 's arm in warning , feeling the other girl stiffen as she , too , glanced through the open door . |
| 8 | She glanced through the open gateway , her attention caught by the tramp of boots . |
| 9 | Just then I glanced through the little bedroom window and saw all the women and kids still hanging about outside . |
| 10 | She glanced towards the Temperate House , but the old lady had gone . |
| 11 | As they all laughed , Joe glanced towards the little woman , and she , nodding back to him , said , ‘ 'T IS true . ’ |
| 12 | He stopped , glanced towards the half-open door , and all the blood drained from his face as he realised that someone was standing there , out of sight . |
| 13 | He glanced into the rear-view mirror to see if anyone was following . |
| 14 | She glanced into the rear-view mirror , convinced that hers was the only car on this lonely road . |
| 15 | She was smiling and looking at Conchis , though she glanced with a cool interest at me as I stood . |
| 16 | He glanced round the small ring of faces , by now registering quickening interest . |
| 17 | Obviously she 'd been lucky in what the travel agency had found for her , she thought approvingly as she glanced round the attractive room . |
| 18 | She was annoyed to feel a tiny prickle of unease as she glanced round the big farmhouse kitchen — what on earth was happening to her now ? |
| 19 | She glanced round the deserted hall and glared at Santerre . |
| 20 | Miss Ellis flinched and glanced in the rear view mirror but continued to talk in her calm , professional voice while Gilly picked at the bits of gum stuck in her straggly hair and on her cheeks and chin . |
| 21 | She glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw the headlights of the traffic behind her . |
| 22 | She glanced in the rear-view mirror to see that the Audi was in pursuit . |
| 23 | Ward glanced in the rear-view mirror , then all round , finally pulling up in the middle of the road . |
| 24 | Robyn straightened her dress , glanced in the rear-view mirror at her still unrecognisable appearance and got out . |
| 25 | Niall glanced in the rear-view mirror . |
| 26 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 27 | The guard glanced down the deserted street , and now caught the glimmer of moonlight on something lying in the mud a few yards away . |
| 28 | This time she did n't wait to see if anyone would come , but swiftly glanced to the small instrument tray . |
| 29 | There was no blood on the bandage , but as she glanced across the broad sweep of his back Isabel realised suddenly how close Guy had come to being killed . |
| 30 | Fran switched off the tape-recorder then glanced across the crowded foyer , immediately pin-pointing Luke in a group clustered around the door to the Council Chamber . |