Example sentences of "peer at [pers pn] [prep] " 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 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 4 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 5 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 6 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 7 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 8 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 9 | More often than not the face peered at me through leaves . |
| 10 | Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 12 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 13 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
| 14 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 15 | He coughed twice before saying , ‘ Yes ? ’ then leaned forward and peered at her as if his sight were bad , then coughed a harsh , chest-tearing cough before asking further , ‘ Yes , what d' you want ? ’ |
| 16 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 17 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
| 18 | Slowly he stripped the black thread from his fingers , peering at her through his glasses as if wondering who she was . |
| 19 | Matt turned to Doreen , peering at her from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 20 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 21 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
| 22 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there , peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 29 | " That 's odd , " said Fleury , peering at it with interest ; he had never seen anything like it on a statue . |
| 30 | 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 . |