Example sentences of "[coord] behind it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their combatant status is the same whether they are employed at the front or behind it … |
| 2 | You could al you could always take her to the dent , is the other tooth in front of it or behind it ? |
| 3 | And I noticed that the skin was hanging loose in folds over the shoulder and behind it , as if it had fit a rounder form yesterday , before the rigours of birth . |
| 4 | This jumping-off line gave some order to the patrolling , and behind it the many administrative essentials could be organised . |
| 5 | It made my head swim , so that I can remember , after that , only hopeless confusion : Nonni coming in and crying , Richard yelling at her to get out and mind her own business , and behind it all , poor Tom sobbing and sobbing . |
| 6 | The larva heaps sand or soil onto its head and jaws and then flicks it with some force up and behind it , working in a circle to produce a conical pit . |
| 7 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 8 | Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face . |
| 9 | The man could both paint and name a chair , and bring into play his own terrors and hopes , and behind it , the culture of Europe , north and south , the Church itself . |
| 10 | Apple trees grew on either side of the double-sided small house , and behind it the land rose smoothly to a small wood that followed the ridge of a hill . |
| 11 | And behind it another voice , ‘ Ora pro nobis … ’ |
| 12 | I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright . |
| 13 | The grinding , stretching sounds were rising to a pitch and behind it all , another low-register noise . |
| 14 | A dark palpable mist hung over the moorland and behind it the sun flamed in temper . |
| 15 | Blanche listened to the squelch of their feet , the-soughing trees , the swish of a distant car on the damp road and behind it all an amorphous hum . |
| 16 | And behind it were two Indians riding a mule , brown ponchos draped over their shoulders , straw hats jammed on their heads and held with leather thongs under the chin . |
| 17 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 18 | Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills . |
| 19 | Inside the main entrance was a counter , and behind it a door led into the office . |
| 20 | and behind it stasis and death . |
| 21 | It was white now , and behind it you could see the shape . |
| 22 | Near the village end of the track a ‘ Fisher 's Farm ’ was marked and behind it , a green rectangle with the legend ‘ Fisher 's Wood ’ . |
| 23 | Er the the l the lower picture is of the er traffic island er the present traffic island outside the Courthouse er together with in the middle distance the existing motorway and behind it erm St Mark 's Church , and as part of the scheme er that existing motorway would be dug up and moved er to cover the existing island in the foreground roughly up to where that white car or van is . |
| 24 | There 's also the herb garden , newly opened it 's to sell herb plants and seeds — and behind it something rather more exotic is growing — in the butterfly house … which houses 20 kinds of butterflies and moths in a temperature of eighty degrees . |
| 25 | But behind it all is Scott , who is self-appointed and unsalaried producer , director and spokesman for an enterprise that never occured to British sport itself . |
| 26 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 27 | The offer was rejected but behind it lay the assumption that a new relationship will have to develop between north and the south in a wider European context . |
| 28 | But behind it we see a leader who was available to be led by God to break the mould and to go to a completely new group . |
| 29 | My tracer passed in line with the machine but behind it , and rather than stop firing , I pulled back steadily on my control column until the tracers crept along the rear of the machine and into the cockpit . |
| 30 | The year was not without James 's usual sloping adventures , but behind it there was something solid . |