Example sentences of "be [verb] behind " in BNC.
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| 31 | This rapid development quelled the movement , which had been proceeding behind the scenes , to replace Attlee with a more obviously partisan anti-Churchillian such as Morrison . |
| 32 | These people are staying behind in assembly 's out . |
| 33 | Nicholas Brown has now been languishing behind Indian bars since the end of 1990 . |
| 34 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 35 | Interestingly , it cuts across several parishes , so that in some cases very small areas of parish land are isolated behind the massive earthworks of the dyke . |
| 36 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 37 | Be flexible with the details so that if you are getting behind you can trim the programme . |
| 38 | No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me . |
| 39 | About 24 houses are proposed behind the castle but the strongest objections are to the development of an area alongside the A55 Expressway in a corner of the park . |
| 40 | She felt breathless , light-headed and as perfectly helpless as a butterfly whose wings had been pinned behind its back . |
| 41 | In addition to the three pairs of legs and four pairs of feet which are found behind the legs , the crab louse is equipped with sensory antennae and eyes . |
| 42 | The ECMT recognises that past policies and actions on transport and the environment are running behind the debate , and that future transport policies should be forced to consider environmental matters . |
| 43 | Especially when you consider this is what real people — lawyers , teachers , secretaries , waitresses , military officers and ditch diggers , among others — are doing behind closed doors . |
| 44 | The idea for a national committee to act as an independent watchdog has been proposed behind the scenes by Sir David Cox , one of the world 's most eminent statisticians . |
| 45 | On 3 May he protested that Alexander 's troops were entering areas already liberated by his forces , and requested that these should be withdrawn behind the line of the river Isonzo . |
| 46 | So unless we train ourselves to find alternatives then the better answers that might be hidden behind the first answer are lost to us . |
| 47 | They might be hidden behind their curtain of trees , but she felt oppressed by their proximity just the same , as if they were standing guard over her . |
| 48 | Comforting sounds of activity could be heard behind the green-baize door . |
| 49 | However , from a computer resource management viewpoint they are two procedures and when both are invoked b ) must be queued behind a ) . |
| 50 | If a narrow back-to-wall pan is installed , a plastic cistern can be placed behind a false wall , with just the handle showing , and some back-to-wall toilets are wall-hung . |
| 51 | An aeroplane taking 22 men of the Special Air Service Regiment in June 1944 to be dropped behind the German lines to join the Maquis was recalled on account of bad weather , crashed somewhere in the wooded area near Dijon and no trace has since been found of the plane and its company . |
| 52 | Those who joined knew full well that they were liable to be dropped behind enemy lines . |
| 53 | So now he could be caught behind the safety of the fence , and the rope attached to his headstall was no longer needed . |
| 54 | ‘ The point being that while Dad 's out earning the housekeeping , certain things could conceivably be occurring behind his back . |
| 55 | Nor would he be able to let us know about the reversal of the thermodynamic arrow , or even bank his winnings , because he would be trapped behind the event horizon of the black hole . ) |
| 56 | She kept squarely in front of him , as if trying to block his view of what might be happening behind her . |
| 57 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 58 | The fruits seem almost to jump into his hands and mouth , just dying to serve mankind , and , as with Marlowe , there is no sign of work to be seen behind this fertility . |
| 59 | Perhaps Charles 's hand can be seen behind this remarkable foreshadowing of a new style of king-making ritual . |
| 60 | It will not be done behind anybody 's back , if you should veto it it falls , quite clearly I mean your masters , naturally . |