Example sentences of "[verb] peer at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ratany plant , ’ he 'd say , dismounting to peer at the tiny , magenta petals . |
| 2 | He stopped to peer at the pool below through a ‘ crack ’ in the water , rather as though someone was peeping through lace curtains . |
| 3 | ‘ She went to Germany , ’ Flora said , stopping to peer at the wall , where moss was beginning to swell into new plump spring cushions . |
| 4 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 5 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 6 | Having secured the tables and the glasses , he had peered at the dark discoloured oil of an elderly cleric in a shovel hat and opined that this was the work of ‘ our local genius ’ . |
| 7 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |