Example sentences of "peering at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly he stripped the black thread from his fingers , peering at her through his glasses as if wondering who she was . |
| 2 | Matt turned to Doreen , peering at her from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 3 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You could wheel in Julius Caesar and Pike would just sit there , peering at him through his gold-rimmed glasses . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And with his round face and friendly little circular eyes peering at you from behind those less-than-state-of-the-art spectacles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " That 's odd , " said Fleury , peering at it with interest ; he had never seen anything like it on a statue . |