Example sentences of "[verb] behind them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stage I V8 was fitted with restrictors behind the carbs to ‘ strangle ’ the power down to comply with type approval regulations If you remove the carbs you will see behind them the restrictor ‘ plug ’ with three smaller holes in it Sometimes they pull out and sometimes they need breaking up with a chisel ( after removing the manifold ) This will give you quite a considerable increase in power , so watch the roadholding ! |
| 2 | Critics complained of the ‘ drab uniformity ’ of such seemingly endless streets , which frequently concealed behind them a network of older and certainly less well ordered thoroughfares . |
| 3 | The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments : standing stones , burial chambers , villages and brochs . |
| 4 | Only the most illustrious names hold out the lure of considerable profit ; but many thousands of unknown men and women have left behind them a legacy of written material that will never be illicitly copied and imitated yet will yield a rich store of history , and throw light on their place and period , life and labours , which are every bit as important , in the ultimate scale of things , as the antics and accomplishments of those who contrived to hit the headlines . |
| 5 | By their venality as well as by their failure , these papal emissaries left behind them no very happy impression among the English of aliens or cardinals . |
| 6 | Erbani , Lorieux and Carminati in the pack are no strangers to the international arena with 75 caps between them , but Fouroux and his assistant coach Daniel Dubroca hope that the French will show willingness and enthusiasm for battle and put behind them the inept and inexplicable performance witnessed at Strasbourg . |
| 7 | But the French also left behind them a nation which was still dominated , both constitutionally and fatally , by the Christian Maronites . |
| 8 | They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts . |
| 9 | There are those who spend their lives courting the unobtainable , pursuing impossible dreams ; and there are the Don Juans and femmes fatales who prefer to travel rather than to arrive , leaving behind them a path strewn with broken hearts . |
| 10 | After a series of high speed taxi-runs , at 8:38am on September 21 , 1964 NAA 's Chief Test Pilot , Al White , and the USAF 's project pilot Colonel Joe Cotton lifted 20001 off the runway by the 5,000 foot marker , leaving behind them a sooty trail from the six most powerful jet engines then known to exist . |
| 11 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 12 | As they came , many of them spat repeatedly , leaving behind them a trail of crimson , betel-stained saliva on the burning concrete of the wharf . |
| 13 | They were turning out into the village street again now , leaving behind them the stone ranks of the dead , with their propitiatory offerings of flowers and foliage . |
| 14 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
| 15 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 16 | The reason why the ’ three wise men ’ report was produced so quickly is that the three people whom I invited to deliver it — Mr. Alexander , Mr. Rose and Mr. Woodhead — had behind them a lifetime of experience and close involvement with primary schools , and they were able to distil that lifetime 's knowledge very rapidly . |
| 17 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |