Example sentences of "peer [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great heads with green , multi-faceted eyes peer down at her . |
| 2 | He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely . |
| 3 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 4 | Outside two young men peered in at the lighted women with their bottles and Jonquil 's cans of Carlsberg . |
| 5 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 6 | As she peered down at him she saw him pause and look quickly round . |
| 7 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 8 | He peered down at Mrs Fletcher 's crumpled list . |
| 9 | He peered down at me and scratched his head as he replaced his cap on his bald head . |
| 10 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 11 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 12 | The old man peered down at him . |
| 13 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 14 | He handed down the cane and the bicycle lamp and she waded away into the shadows as the curious faces of the villagers , the anxious face of her father , peered down at her . |
| 15 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 16 | She peered down at it , noting that a white smock , like a hospital gown , clothed her from throat to ankles . |
| 17 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 18 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 19 | The grubby face of a young boy , not more than ten summers in age , peered down at the speaker through the tangled mass of overgrown shrubbery atop a high stone wall . |
| 20 | Then she paused and peered down at the writhing thread . |
| 21 | Baker , who had abandoned his spectacles , peered down at what was plainly a sordid scene of domestic violence of the kind he was familiar with only in statistics . |
| 22 | Quigley peered down at its bum . |
| 23 | Teetering on the sheer cliff , Tallis peered down at the river . |
| 24 | The fool failed to realise the significance of the white rose , but instead peered down at Ruthven . |
| 25 | Ashley enquired , as he peered down at the instrument panel . |
| 26 | He peered down at Ralph and said , |
| 27 | Finally he shuffled across and peered through at us . |
| 28 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 29 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 30 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |