Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun pl] behind them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same mood continued after Monday night 's 3–0 home defeat at the hands of third-placed Pirelli — meaning that even if Alton were to win all five of the games in hand they have over the Eastleigh side , they would still be three points behind them . |
| 2 | They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them . |
| 3 | Fire engines raced across the airport , and there were other vehicles behind them . |
| 4 | Vologsky asked , when the Kharkov air-base was many miles behind them . |
| 5 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |
| 6 | The door was thirty feet behind them , beyond a mass of people . |