Example sentences of "in behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lean in behind the strike in order to get the maximum range , and raise your other hand as a guard . |
| 2 | When a larger group came tramping in behind a piper , Cameron and Menzies recognized some stalwarts from Foss on Tummel . |
| 3 | Officially , Britain is keen to present its lobbying effort as a ‘ gentlemanly exercise ’ that falls in behind those being conducted by the American Navy , by the Lockheed Corporation , which is making the D-5 , and also by the White House . |
| 4 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 5 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 6 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 7 | The Americans backed one faction , the South Africans crept in behind another . |
| 8 | A puppet government was moved in behind the Russian tanks . |
| 9 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 10 | Every few seconds a plane would take off as another approached the cross runway , with a third coming in behind the take-off plane to land . |
| 11 | Celtic beat St Johnstone 3–2 to move in behind Rangers . |
| 12 | The party of the workers fell in behind the policy of foreign bankers , which meant that it fell in behind high unemployment caused by high interest rates . |
| 13 | The party of the workers fell in behind the policy of foreign bankers , which meant that it fell in behind high unemployment caused by high interest rates . |
| 14 | A group of teenagers sat , wedged in behind the fixed tables and seats in the alcove . |
| 15 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |
| 16 | At the sound of the air-raid siren , a woman carrying a child tripped at the entrance to the Underground , and a panic-stricken crowd pushed in behind her ; 173 people were trampled to death . |
| 17 | Some fall in behind her , and follow her to the lecture theatre , so that she appears to be leading a little procession , a female Pied Piper . |
| 18 | Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street . |
| 19 | Marcus pulled Pat up by the shoulders , pulling him up so that his head was higher , and Moxie thrust the pillow in behind him . |
| 20 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 21 | When everyone was occupied she would waft into the room and over to the cradle , to peer quietly into it and then , satisfied that the baby was safe and well , to slip in behind the door . |
| 22 | At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden . |
| 23 | Gathering up their equipment they marched off again , only to find that two Italian sentries had fallen in behind them . |
| 24 | The second alternative is to slot the new development in behind existing frontages . |
| 25 | The air , heavy with silent , still flakes , closed in behind us making our isolation almost absolute . |
| 26 | Colin Thubron illustrates this in a haunting story in Behind The Wall , an account of his travels in China . |
| 27 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 28 | On Monday 2 March 1964 Mr Silcock welcomed Miss Margaret Medlow and Mr Kennedy McClatchey to the Leaders ' Meeting and some further discussion took place on the possibility of moving the Communion rail forward and bringing the choir in behind the rail . |
| 29 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 30 | He had seen it plane in behind the trees beyond a bend in the stream and had stalked and shot it while she slept . |