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Example sentences of "[noun] behind they " 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	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	The Cave Squigs will attack any models in base contact except for the prodder-armed Night Goblins behind them .
6	He and Buckingham had a significant force behind them , and they also had control of the young king .
7	He and Buckingham had a significant force behind them , and they also had control of the young king .
8	The sound of footsteps on the gravel behind them put an end to the confrontation between the two women .
9	As they reached the privet hedge fronting the Newleys ' garden , he was fervently grateful to have a last-minute reprieve : the drawing-room curtains were n't thick enough to conceal the light behind them .
10	His long , lean , lugubrious face was dry and rigid as carved teak , and his eyes , sunken between veined lids and deep in cavernous hollows of bone , looked like roundels of cloudy glass with no light behind them .
11	His eyes met hers , dark and secret with a light behind them that she could not fail to see .
12	The eyes that dwelt upon her had opened wide in surprise , perhaps even in amusement ; but the mind behind them was held and deeply exercised .
13	His eyes were blue , beneath sandy brows , and very keen and bright , missing nothing favourable or unfavourable to himself , and the mind behind them recorded all , and forgave nothing .
14	Now , they turned and walked back to the cottage , with the wind behind them .
15	And with an east wind behind them they could not abruptly halt .
16	I think they would fancy their chances going er with the wind behind them .
17	Right Forest are gon na have the wind behind them
18	Always they had the wind behind them .
19	Did n't know where to find him , leave him alone and they will come home wagging their tails behind them
20	little Bo Peep has found her sheep , did n't know where to take them , thank goodness your back on all is back , wagging their tails behind them
21	And did n't know where to find them , leave them alone and they will come home wagging their tails behind them
22	and they 'll come home dragging their tails behind them
23	where to find them , leave them alone and they 'll come home , wagging their tails behind them ,
24	With this unwelcome interruption behind them , Alistair Bruce and John Moir continued , with the QCs and advocates , to prepare their case for the Proof Hearing .
25	Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets .
26	Boulders burst into fragments behind them .
27	Although their families still mourn their loss , they have tried to put their grief behind them and rebuild their lives .
28	When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips .
29	He must be for ever two steps behind them on complicated murder cases .
30	It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda .