Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun has been snatched behind a curtain of black cloud . |
| 2 | Much work has been done behind the scenes to pave the way for its implementation . |
| 3 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 4 | Dostoevsky 's home-made word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment ; it has been left behind ( unlike the mind that coined it ) in the much more theoretical Notes from Underground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The full might of American marketing know-how has been put behind these shows , with stickers , package tours , bill-boards , radio commercials all pulling in the masses : culture and profit , say the city fathers . |
| 7 | One of the slave-builders must have been incarcerated behind this hatch as a sacrifice to good fortune — with the chance of squirming his way up that curving conduit to some high exit point , a well-nigh impossible task when fettered . |
| 8 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 9 | US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 10 | Minutes before , a collapsible set had been constructed behind them , a Lib Dem slogan Velcroed carefully in place . |
| 11 | Before then all fusion research had been conducted behind a screen of secrecy . |
| 12 | One of the most widespread public criticisms of the Meech Lake process was that the federal-provincial negotiations had been conducted behind closed doors and with little consultation with the electorate . |
| 13 | ‘ And therefore you had been conceived behind the closed gates of that dreadful other Ireland . |
| 14 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 15 | The telephone was in one piece there were no bloodstains no signs of what they still call ‘ foul play ’ as if somebody had been kicked behind the referee 's back . |
| 16 | The Inspector had been shot behind the ear at close range , but according to later medical reports , this had not killed the unusually strong policeman . |
| 17 | The future of Mentmore had been discussed behind bolted doors since the death of the sixth Earl of Rosebery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 20 | Something real had been left behind when she 'd walked away from Castell Rocamar , and she felt only half alive . |
| 21 | WHAT rampant sexism for a reader to say that Fiona Armstrong 's legs had been wasted behind the newsreaders ’ desk . |
| 22 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 23 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 24 | I realized then that the lamp had been put behind me so that it would light her entrance ; and it was an entrance to take the breath away . |
| 25 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 26 | She felt breathless , light-headed and as perfectly helpless as a butterfly whose wings had been pinned behind its back . |
| 27 | But back to Charlie and those gossipy tales about the steamy scenes that had been filmed behind closed doors : ‘ There 's no running around naked — it 's not a porno film . |
| 28 | Indeed , linear magnetic anomalies have been identified behind a number of island arcs ; those behind the Scotia Arc in the southern Atlantic Ocean , for instance , indicate that spreading has occurred here over the past 7–8 Ma . |