Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Bentley swam out from behind the ranch house 's tamarisk hedge , accelerated arrogantly and , passing him , drove him back flat against the hedge . |
| 2 | Suppose I leap out from behind a tree , and by sheer surprise frighten you . |
| 3 | He rose languidly from behind the desk and padded to the door . |
| 4 | Neil Fraser , as he moved out from behind his desk . |
| 5 | But if the Mother of God heard , she must have decided that the cause was not a worthy one , for as Jennifer moved out from behind the dovecot she felt herself seized from behind . |
| 6 | The moon threatens to come out from behind the clouds again and I have to jump down to the paving stones of the patio beneath . |
| 7 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 8 | I 'll take them later , ’ Philpott muttered gruffly from behind the newspaper . |
| 9 | Scott-Scobie suddenly woke up from behind his Financial Times and asked : What was that ? |
| 10 | With that , Dick changed course , and in a short while they came up from behind the Shuttle . |
| 11 | He had been invincible earlier , when he had changed — the real self pushing out from behind his human mask — but now he was her meat . |
| 12 | And Ruth came back from behind the screen with a white paper in her hand , brightly painted green and mauve . |
| 13 | He suddenly darted out from behind a metal ladder and Whitlock aimed at his legs . |
| 14 | A recorded voice was booming out from behind the pay-booth where some Americans were pushing their jerky way through . |
| 15 | But soon , yes , she would have to take the telegram and walk to the shop and watch Enid fainting and Mother rustling out from behind the counter . |
| 16 | When the sun came out from behind the fog , the world turned golden and beautiful . |
| 17 | A grey thing came out from behind the tree and came towards me . |
| 18 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 19 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 20 | Raised voices came out from behind Coffin 's closed door . |
| 21 | Just then the moon came out from behind a cloud . |
| 22 | The sun came out from behind a cloud , and shone on the stone walls of Fullcircle . |
| 23 | Cheap Mo cheap ’ and Magill came out from behind his flat-topped mahogany desk with a shout of laughter and hugged her and patted her bottom . |
| 24 | He came out from behind the desk , and gestured at the sofa . |
| 25 | A saleswoman came out from behind the counter and asked if she could help . |
| 26 | However , it was not until she came round from behind the reception desk that I realised how huge she was . |
| 27 | Kolchinsky came round from behind the desk and the two men shook hands . |
| 28 | He came forward from behind his desk and held out his hand as if this were a first meeting . |
| 29 | The beefy man climbed down from behind his counter and led Joe to the back of the shop , where he unlocked a door . |
| 30 | When he left , with his green and tomato boxes heaped on his Selected Ash , they nodded affably from behind the issue desk . |