Example sentences of "[noun] behind [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have , after all , several centuries of established methodology behind them as virtually all the documents created up until very recently indeed were all hand assembled . |
| 2 | This president behind me led a delegation of er fourteen of us , one of 'em got a gold badge yesterday , Eric , half of 'em sat down there , and we went canvassing in Rochdale , last election , just before ninth of April , that disaster we had . |
| 3 | Articulated with an engine cab towing a carriage behind it , they enjoyed heavy use in country pastures or peat bog , areas where they could stop to pick up passengers anywhere along the way , with good enough acceleration to then hold onto a time-table . |
| 4 | He might have the likely lads behind him : Pringle from Kenya , Foster from Colchester , Waugh from Sydney and various waifs and strays that Essex Man has housed ; or he may be ready to bat . |
| 5 | He might have the likely lads behind him : Pringle from Kenya , Foster from Colchester , Waugh from Sydney and various waifs and strays that Essex Man has housed ; or he may be ready to bat . |
| 6 | After the calamity of their Tennents Scottish Cup defeat at Falkirk last week , Celtic travel to Aberdeen today aiming to put that disappointment behind them . |
| 7 | He stayed within budget for Mata Mua , which dates from Gauguin 's first trip to Tahiti in 1892 and shows two young girls in the foreground , with older women dancing round a stone figure behind them . |
| 8 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you know now , ’ snapped his adversary , his tall person almost entirely concealing Theda 's figure behind him where he had moved to protect her . |
| 10 | I could put all that fear behind me now and get going again . |
| 11 | A unit of Squig Hunters is always deployed in two ranks with all the Cave Squigs in the front rank and all the Night Goblins behind them . |
| 12 | The Cave Squigs will attack any models in base contact except for the prodder-armed Night Goblins behind them . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's going on , ’ I scream into the blackness behind me . |
| 14 | They are also idea for rooms with sloping ceilings , where a normal wardrobe will project some way into the room , leaving a gap behind it . |
| 15 | He and Buckingham had a significant force behind them , and they also had control of the young king . |
| 16 | He and Buckingham had a significant force behind them , and they also had control of the young king . |
| 17 | Francesca 's judgement was typically over-judicial and conscientiously unemotional , but this had real force behind it . |
| 18 | The second stone had more force behind it , but Rose took a half step back as she threw it and it went wide . |
| 19 | The Railway , Energy , and Machine Building and Electronics Ministries are quoted as the driving force behind it , but the paper says that the Ministry of Aerospace , the People 's Liberation Army , and the China International Trust & Investment Corp ( which owns 25% of an AsiaSat satellite transponder ) are also involved . |
| 20 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |
| 21 | Like the previous framework , regulationist theories analyse industrial change both in terms of the strongly international driving force behind it , and in terms of the social and organizational restructuring that accompanies technical change and innovation . |
| 22 | But now Duvall had the time , the training , the balance and the strength to deliver a kick to Jimmy 's midriff ; a controlled kick that had all of Duvall 's force behind it , from the hip . |
| 23 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 24 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 25 | Woodline Design did not rest on any past laurels ; it was highly solvent and very successful , and it did n't take long for Merrill to discover that Luke was the driving force behind it , and that her initial impression of him as dynamic was something of an understatement . |
| 26 | Since the Community 's inception under the treaty of Rome in 1957 , mutual self-interest has been the driving force behind it . |
| 27 | The sound of footsteps on the gravel behind them put an end to the confrontation between the two women . |
| 28 | He heard the approaching footsteps on the gravel behind him . |
| 29 | He hit that big vehicle and then he hit me add a few other cars behind me . |
| 30 | I thought them poor cars behind me . |