Example sentences of "the [noun pl] behind [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while , though , I began to feel sure that I 'd spotted a Gharrgoyle — or maybe a different one at different times — wriggling through the crowds behind me . |
| 2 | ‘ The men on the right wing and the men on the left have lost half the ranks behind them , although they 're spread out and from the front it looks just the same . |
| 3 | The rasp and snap of the engine bounced against the walls of the houses behind him , tumbled over the rocks and dust beyond . |
| 4 | By the decade 's end , such expectations were exposed as pipedreams , and the strategies behind them had collapsed in ruins . |
| 5 | The course has a strong grammar base with questions , explanations , and practice designed to encourage students to think about the structures they are studying and the rules behind them . |
| 6 | Both volumes adopt the lowlands study formula and examine the changes and the reasons behind them in 12 ‘ type areas ’ ranging from northeast to southwest England as shown in Table 8.5 . |
| 7 | Because much of the product is already familiar to readers this review will concentrate , so far as is possible , on the upgrades and the reasons behind them rather than the existing features . |
| 8 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 9 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 10 | The reasons behind it , however , and the related issue of where responsibility lies , have still not been entirely explained . |
| 11 | The reasons behind it , however , and the related issue of where responsibility lies , have still not been entirely explained . |
| 12 | Yes I think , I think the absence of the full stop is done on purpose but I think the kind of things you were suggesting , the reasons behind it . |
| 13 | Both GEC-Ferranti and GEC-Marconi refused to say anything about either Mr Dunn 's departure or the reasons behind it . |
| 14 | One of the cops behind me on the stairs put an armlock on me . |
| 15 | Suddenly there was a shout from one of the Tans behind him . |
| 16 | Tabitha heard his bootheels tap up the steps behind her . |
| 17 | Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before . |
| 18 | Although the sun glinted off its scales , Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it . |
| 19 | cos you think well if I ca n't see any of the cars behind it then they ca n't see me either . |
| 20 | But when you come to turn into his drive there 's the ca , you know the cars behind you doing sixty odd ! |
| 21 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 22 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 23 | Then she heard someone come through the bushes behind her — " Oh damn ! " she though : her friends had found her . |
| 24 | Then he heard the rustling in the bushes behind him . |
| 25 | Léonie left the Jews behind her in the room . |
| 26 | He reached down , found his field bag — and saw the feet behind him . |
| 27 | The headlights behind him were blurred , the gap between pursued and pursuers had widened , but they were there . |
| 28 | While a good many artists and dealers have clearly been upset by Saatchi 's actions , no one feels absolutely confident about the motives behind them , and Saatchi himself absolutely declines to discuss his dealings , whether in art or business . |
| 29 | The exact mechanism of Hastings ' fall is , however , less important than the motives behind it . |
| 30 | Much foreign press comment , most of which was highly sceptical both of the referendum results and of the motives behind it , focussed on the issue of Western Sahara , suggesting that the inclusion of the territory 's people in the voting , and their apparently ready participation , could be shown as a further proof of their supposed attachment to Morocco . |