Example sentences of "behind he like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing long white shorts with a black band , he is perfectly poised , arms outstretched , slightly crouched , his arrow-like board barely carving the water with one rail , spraying out a tail of whitewater behind him like a comet moving through space . |
| 2 | Photographs of the period show a grinning Duke with his ten-foot board looming up behind him like a tall wooden tombstone , his name engraved on the deck like an epitaph . |
| 3 | His hair was trailing behind him like a veil and Mike , the bass , observed that he looked as though he was trawling for mackerel ; and as he turned , Colin , the drummer , said : ‘ Bugger me ! |
| 4 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 5 | His hair was spread behind him like a black raiment . |
| 6 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 7 | Ranulf sauntered out , the young messenger trailing behind him like a lost puppy . |
| 8 | He hooked the door shut with his foot , and walked away , spilling wrong notes behind him like a gardener sowing weeds . |
| 9 | The cap fixed him securely to the board , with his airborne body trembling behind him like the handle of a plunged dagger . |
| 10 | Culley stood behind him like an invigilator . |