Example sentences of "behind [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 2 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 3 | Then this young punk comes up behind me and hits me on the head with a car-tool . |
| 4 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 5 | With palms facing upwards , take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times . |
| 6 | With palms facing upwards , take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times . |
| 7 | With palms facing upwards , take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 30 times . |
| 8 | And when Jessie saw this man that she loved slide down the wall , then drop onto his side , she screamed ; but her screaming was soon checked by her father who , staggering towards her , put his hand over her mouth then twisted one of her arms behind her and thrust her towards the staircase door . |
| 9 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 10 | Folly grabbed a pillow from behind her and threw it at Luke , then saw his face change with sudden desire as the sheet slipped down to expose her breasts . |
| 11 | But he followed closely behind her and presented himself to her mother with another of the staccato nods he had learned on the parade ground . |
| 12 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 13 | But Jane insists she 's still a Gazza fan … and that no-one would be happier than her if he put his troubles behind him and established himself as the best , as well as the most talked about , footballer in the world . |
| 14 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 15 | We were walking up the road from the hotel when a young man padded up behind us and greeted us in English . |