Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] behind the " in BNC.
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1 | as if to point out that they were not entirely alone , a man with a white terrier came towards them from behind the sandhills . |
2 | We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes . |
3 | I opened the conservatory door to slip out to my bedroom the back way and noticed a pair of eyes peering at me from behind the rubber plant in the far corner , distorted by the old glass . |
4 | She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses . |
5 | Suddenly an evil face , more like an animal than a man , looked at us from behind the rock . |
6 | The wino leaned and leered at her from behind the cover of the chip man 's mighty stomach . |