Example sentences of "peer [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
5 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
6 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
7 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
8 | Bella peered at her through the dark . |
9 | ‘ Is Mrs Vulcan in ? ’ they chorused , peering past me into the room . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |