Example sentences of "in behind the " 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 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A puppet government was moved in behind the Russian tanks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A group of teenagers sat , wedged in behind the fixed tables and seats in the alcove . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the foot of it there was a kind of dent in the stonework where she could crouch in behind the cloth , almost hidden . |
| 11 | Colin Thubron illustrates this in a haunting story in Behind The Wall , an account of his travels in China . |
| 12 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had seen it plane in behind the trees beyond a bend in the stream and had stalked and shot it while she slept . |
| 16 | It drove swiftly round the perimeter and pulled in behind the ‘ plane , its ramp down , cavernous interior gaping wide . |
| 17 | Also remember to paint over the putty , at least a couple of millimetres on to the glass , so that water ca n't get in behind the putty to rot the wood . |
| 18 | One company recommends laying its own make of cork lining paper or roll cork below the planks for better heat installation , and most manufacturers recommend a sheet of underlay below their wood floors ( to be tucked in behind the skirting boards ) if there is any possibility of dampness occurring . |
| 19 | Mickey Aronson shouted as the President sat in behind the wheel . |
| 20 | seeping in behind the eyes |
| 21 | On the forecourt he unlocked the car and threw the diaries across on to the passenger seat before sliding in behind the wheel . |
| 22 | That was four hours too long for Billie wedged in behind the ferry tanks . |
| 23 | When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body . |
| 24 | She dug the nail of her little finger deeply in behind the left ear . |
| 25 | and everything , you know in behind the ear here , I felt as if my head was |
| 26 | Julia fell in behind the butler , a handsome auburn-haired Irishman with hands like a conjuror 's , whose knowing dexterity she had admired in the kitchen . |
| 27 | She went in behind the screen and discovered the old lady 's body half immersed in a tub of water . |
| 28 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 29 | He slotted himself in behind the steering-wheel , and started the car first time . |
| 30 | Having done so , slammed the door shut , walked round the front of the car , opened the driver 's door and began to climb in behind the wheel . |