Example sentences of "peer at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 2 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 3 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 4 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 5 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 6 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 7 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 8 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 9 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 10 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 11 | A windy night , is n't it ? ’ he says — which is self-evident as you shiver , peering at him past the security chain on the door while struggling to keep yourself decent . |
| 12 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 13 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 14 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |