Example sentences of "behind [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
| 2 | Flying through the air to find food , they can not leave scent trails behind them for other members of the colony as earth-bound termites do . |
| 3 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 4 | These include mini-trunking , similar to that used for electric cables , and additional skirting boards and architraves ( in plastic or hardwood ) which have a space behind them for running pipes . |
| 5 | I reached out behind me for the feeder on the locker-top . |
| 6 | It rolled across the desk to the edge , and then took off behind me for the rear of the craft ; it fell to the floor-what we call ‘ the floor ’ when the craft is on the pad . |
| 7 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 8 | Relax the leg by holding on to your ankle and pulling the leg behind you for 5 counts ( see previous exercise ) . |
| 9 | She just heard footsteps behind her , looked around , and there he was , standing behind her for all the world as though nothing between them had changed . |
| 10 | But the light that filtered through the curtains as she sat up in bed soon convinced her that , unlikely though it seemed , she really had left the discomforts of her hotel behind her for good . |
| 11 | Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress . |
| 12 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 13 | She blinked and clutched at the wall behind her for support , searching his bland , secretive face to see if that was a blatant threat . |
| 14 | He was still moving , slowly coming forward , and in desperation she felt along the shelf behind her for some means of defence . |
| 15 | When she reached it , she felt behind her for the handle . |
| 16 | ‘ You seem to have a rather inflated idea of your own attractions , Mr Sterne , ’ she muttered , scarlet-faced , kicking her suitcase towards the door , and reaching cautiously behind her for the latch . |
| 17 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 18 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 19 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 20 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 21 | ‘ Hurry , ’ he urged , checking behind him for witnesses , but she had one more question . |
| 22 | He released Lucien 's wrist and turned his back , lifting his arms over his head , reaching behind him for his shoulders . |
| 23 | He stoked the fire so that it flared , then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones . |
| 24 | After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp . |
| 25 | After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp . |
| 26 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 27 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 28 | I mean , there must be something behind it for the police to go that far . |