Example sentences of "[vb past] behind [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts . |
| 2 | He left behind him a disputed succession between his kinsman , Aethelheard ( ASC A , s.a 726 ) and a rival aetheling , Oswald , allegedly a descendant of Ceawlin ( ASC A , s.a. 728 ) , who survived until 730 ( ASC A , s.a. 730 : cf. , D , s.a. 730 ) . |
| 3 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 4 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 5 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |