Example sentences of "peering at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Queen 's telescope had been able to reach into Patrick 's classroom , there would have been a surprise in store for her — but not for Patrick , who at least affects to believe the story that Orwellian minders are peering at the punters from the screens of the punters ' television sets . |
| 2 | It is a long lonely walk down to where the Wheelbarrow now sits , forlornly peering at the fencepost . |
| 3 | Tug sat down where the Woman pointed , but Doyle began to walk round the room , peering at the table from all angles . |
| 4 | He snaked off again and within minutes the throng began moving towards dinner , dividing into ten to a table , lowering bottoms onto inadequate chairs , fingering menus , peering at the print through candlelight , scanning their allotted neighbours . |
| 5 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 6 | He staggered to a halt , peering at the houses . |
| 7 | ‘ Does n't look very exciting , ’ said Thiercelin , peering at the mildewed page , brown and cracked around the edges . |
| 8 | In Washington , Morton Stannard had listened to the rage of Zack as the spools unwound on the conference-table in the Situation Room , to which the committee had repaired to avoid the Long Tom cameras constantly peering at the windows of the Cabinet Room . |
| 9 | The Zodiac Twins took up positions either side of the robot , their arms folded , peering at the screen with interest . |
| 10 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a small diversion , ’ said Rokovssky , peering at the dancing lights on the moving surface of the dark Thames . |
| 12 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 13 | Above us , tiny rounded ties sang high pitched , squeaky phrases , two-note chants , as they acrobat Ed up and over twigs , peering at the underneath of fat green sycamore buds for grubs . |
| 14 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 15 | He stopped , peering at the stone , and altered the angle of the torch . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't expect her to have a gun , ’ said Brian Kellerman , peering at the cottage , shielding his eyes from the driving rain . |
| 17 | He was peering at the petrol gauge . |
| 18 | God knows , it was bad enough having to poke your way along in the van , peering at the numbers of houses because your runner was incapable of it . |
| 19 | Peering at the little bedside clock , she groaned . |
| 20 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 21 | ‘ They write this stuff for office workers , ’ Carmichael complains , peering at the newsprint as if it was written in a foreign language . |
| 22 | When Postman , John Fletcher is n't at work , this is what he spends most of his time doing ; peering at the sky , in his backyard Observatory he calls Mount Tuffley . |