Example sentences of "peering through the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desperate or the disillusioned have poor vantage points on society ; their view is continually obscured , and they are constantly peering through the clouded lenses of a camera lacking high-quality focusing mechanisms . |
| 2 | Peering through the dark window , her hand cupped to the pane , she made out what looked like two rather sad and bedraggled horses standing beneath an enormous oak , heads hung low . |
| 3 | Similarly , I remember peering through the expanded grille they drew across the cinema entrance when it was closed . |
| 4 | The old man went with her and stayed there , peering through the dirty panes , scrabbling absently for something to hold on to . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's like a prison , ’ she said warily , peering through the final gate at the rows of lead-lined boxes let into the mellow brick walls . |
| 6 | Peering through the pouring rain Jack saw a post with an old weather-stained sign hanging from it . |
| 7 | He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes . |
| 8 | Peering through the filthy window , they saw an empty room littered with small rubble , several pieces of broken dust-covered chairs and an old table , but no sign of life . |
| 9 | Left alone at the table , with the faint shadow of daylight peering through the filthy window in the sloping roof , and with a bare bulb in the wall behind him , Greg looked at the piles of material before him , and his heart sank . |
| 10 | Peering through the transparent cover , he saw what appeared to be bundles of bandages . |
| 11 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 12 | Peering through the wrought iron barrier she watched the nuns file into their stalls , wondering why there was a screen separating what she had been told was the sanctuary from the rest of the chapel . |
| 13 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 14 | Kolchinsky looked round sharply at the face peering through the open passenger-door window . |