Example sentences of "be [verb] behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 2 | He would charge for every pew in the church except those that are placed behind pillars . |
| 3 | The inhabitants are hidden behind their city walls , cowering in fear , if Rahab is to be believed . |
| 4 | I place my chair to the left of the swim so that I am hidden behind the wall of rushes and have a good viewpoint of both rods . |
| 5 | 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in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 6 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 7 | Some existing ‘ boilers ’ used for hot water heating will , however , be back boilers which are situated behind gas or solid fuel fires in the main living room , which may mean significantly long — and inefficient — pipe runs . |
| 8 | The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon . |
| 9 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its vineyards , all south-east and east-facing , are located behind Pierry on a steep slope leading up to the Forêt d'Épernay . |
| 12 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 13 | Much work has been done behind the scenes to pave the way for its implementation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You see , it hurt me to think that you hated me , that you could have been conspiring behind my back with a man like William , but then I began to think a little straighter . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Many of our colleagues think we are sheltering behind the Danes because of the opposition there is in part of Parliament . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He is not privy to Jesus 's inner council , and many decisions are made behind his back or above his head . |
| 19 | We 're living behind Clause 28 . |
| 20 | So we 're meeting behind the |
| 21 | You 're going behind my back again . |
| 22 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 23 | You 're hiding behind an old woman who 's not here to defend herself ! ’ |
| 24 | Taylor said : ‘ We have to face up to the fact that we 're falling behind other countries who do things regarding fitness as a matter of course . ’ |
| 25 | So they 're los they 're , they 're falling behind the peasant movement but they 're also losing control over their own party members and that was as important as erm following the peasants . |
| 26 | I think we 're , I think we 're falling behind here . |
| 27 | you 're braced behind passport , phrase-book and |
| 28 | Even officers are sniggering behind their hands as Tory Councillors pass by . |
| 29 | On the mantelpiece letters and invitations and bills are stuffed behind little Staffordshire pots . |
| 30 | 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 . |