Example sentences of "glanced [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voices called outside in the yard , and the girl glanced nervously towards the doorway ; with difficulty Mada Joyce pulled the door approximately shut on its rusted hinges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rose glanced nervously at the door . |
| 4 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
| 5 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 6 | He glanced nervously around the smoky bar . |
| 7 | Harry eased the big car past a large furniture van and glanced uneasily at the girl beside him . |
| 8 | As I continued to eat ecstatically , feeling the strength ebbing back , he glanced uneasily into the pen . |
| 9 | He glanced uneasily in the direction of the Wolfwood and then said , ‘ What about Fenella ? ’ |
| 10 | Catesby glanced despairingly at the ceiling ; still , the old steward was summoned and questioned . |
| 11 | Athelstan bowed , smiled thinly at the rest of the group , glanced despairingly at the snoring Cranston and led Sir Brian down the corridor . |
| 12 | Horses , gun-dogs and books filled his day , and many a regicide glanced wrathfully at the nonchalant figure of the tall Englishman strolling unconcernedly in the highways and byways of Belgrade . |
| 13 | he peered into the envelope as if hoping to find something worth having inside , then glanced swiftly through the letter and having read it flipped it and the envelope , with a gesture of disgust , to the ground . |
| 14 | Sandra glanced swiftly at the man with the stick , wondering what he had in his pockets . |
| 15 | He glanced pointedly in the direction of the mother of Nogai . |
| 16 | He glanced pointedly in the direction of the Sechem . |
| 17 | He glanced enviously at the suit : plain black , with a waistcoat , four buttons at the cuff , whereas his only had three . |
| 18 | Fiennes glanced doubtfully into the room . |
| 19 | Lisa glanced defeatedly at the pile of papers , then with a heavy heart she gathered them up . |
| 20 | What was this man — she glanced down to the bottom of the page , to where his signature was scrawled — this man Charles Austin going on about ? |
| 21 | He glanced down at the sea , then back at Endill . |
| 22 | She glanced down at the linoleum in despair . |
| 23 | Yanto was aware of the wind in his face as the instructor glanced down at the flag man again . |
| 24 | I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger . |
| 25 | I glanced down at the kitchen . |
| 26 | The boy glanced down at the dog and looked up almost defiantly . |
| 27 | He glanced down at the label on the table to check . |
| 28 | Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood . |
| 29 | The father glanced down at the paper in his hand . |
| 30 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |