Example sentences of "peering [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What was that ? ’ she gasped , peering down through the darkness . |
| 2 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 3 | ‘ Wot ? ’ demanded Camille , peering down over the banister rail . |
| 4 | Biff asked coldly , standing up and peering down into the darkness . |
| 5 | He scurries round the numerous vantage points , peering down into the camera . |
| 6 | From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river . |
| 7 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 8 | Peering down at the ground between his feet , John saw the box , its lid stamped ‘ J.M. ’ in sharp Roman capitals by a pal in the dye-works across the road . |
| 9 | Peering down at the faint blood trail staining the grass , he strode angrily away towards the jungle with his son at his heels . |
| 10 | He was peering down from the leaning tower of Pisa like Galileo testing his theory of gravity . |
| 11 | He made his way round the side of the house , peering in at the windows , noting that some dishes , though washed , had been left on the draining board . |
| 12 | Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy . |
| 13 | They spent their breaks on the window detail peering in through the glass , endlessly scheming dreary things to do when they got back inside . |
| 14 | The rooms seemed bare , she thought , peering in through the dusty panes . |
| 15 | and peering in through the front door |
| 16 | He was peering in on the proceedings from the kitchen , while his best friend , Mafouz , had retreated to the stairs and was looking down , intently , on Mr Malik 's elegantly coiffeured hair . |
| 17 | I noticed that its wing and tail feathers faded out gradually as they got further away from its body , so that the sun was peering through near the tips as the feathers became thinner . |
| 18 | She moved round the tree , peering up into the bare branches . |
| 19 | Ruth whirled round and faced Fernando who 'd appeared from nowhere as she was peering up at the house . |
| 20 | Peering out along the pontoon , he could see the contrasting starkness of new wood at its farther end , the only trace in all this orderly solitude of what had occurred there eighteen months before . |
| 21 | Trent crossed to a window , peering out through the heart-shaped decoration cut in the shutter . |
| 22 | John Hitch wandered towards the cabin , where Terry Morton was steering the boat , peering out over the river . |
| 23 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 24 | Plummer took a sip of his drink and wandered across to the window , peering out into the night . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ I say , peering out at the darkness and the far side of the loch , ‘ unless you have an irate neighbour with particularly good contacts in the arms trade — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 're moving , ’ said Masklin , still peering out of the hole and almost glad of anything that would stop the argument . |
| 27 | Kate was peering out of the windows as they bumped their way on to a farm track and back to the house . |
| 28 | ‘ Where ? ’ the Doctor asked , peering out of the cage . |
| 29 | Jim Perrin , interviewing the climber John Gill , refers to how some hypnagogic states have their parallels in situations of action and describes how , on easy routes , Gill ‘ could feel himself weaving in and out of the rock , peering out from the other side of its surface ’ . |
| 30 | There was a glimpse of dark , pain-filled eyes peering out from the folds of the red blankets . |