Example sentences of "set [adv prt] from the [noun sg] behind " in BNC.

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1 There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens .
2 The property is set back from the road behind a neat foregarden with tarmacadam driveway providing car parking on site and leading to the front entrance .
3 The property is set back from the road behind a stoned wall and a lawned garden with driveway leading to the front entrance .
4 Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn .
5 It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick .
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