Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [conj] behind " in BNC.

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1 It is the result of a fluid build-up in or behind the eyeball and may affect one or both of the eyes .
2 Wexford put the lights on and behind the streaming glass the sky looked black as on a winter 's night .
3 Some pubs have their ‘ cellars ’ on the ground floor while a few pubs , often in rural areas , keep their casks on or behind the bar and serve the beer by gravity from a tap in the tap hole .
4 Weaving or ‘ laying-in ’ on the knitting machine uses a main yarn which knits stocking stitch and a second yarn which is knitted in front of or behind the knitted stitches , forming a surface pattern .
5 Moreover , due to their large diameter wheel , they have a low rolling resistance on poor tracks and , importantly , it is the wheel , and not the person pushing , which carries the weight , since the load is balanced in a pair of lockers , one on each side , and distributed both in front of and behind the axle .
6 I attended one course with about 50 porn star wannabes — nearly all of them men — and got to see the way things operate both in front of and behind the camera .
7 food-vessels before and behind the head ,
8 Certainly , the illness would have given me plenty of opportunities to make strings of fireworks fizzle and explode in bright , whirling wheels of sulphurous pain in and behind Miller 's word-jellied eyeballs .
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