Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] behind [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of time to go quietly upstairs , take the key down from behind the faded watercolour of the lakes of Killarney , and slip it into the lock of her dead mother 's bedroom . |
| 2 | The foyer is abuzz with joshing studes and the final doof ! — doof ! — doof ! — doof ! of Spiritualized 's late soundcheck filters through from behind the main hall 's heavy oak doors . |
| 3 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 4 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 5 | Mrs Tibbs looked out from behind the tall mirror she was carrying to see what the commotion was . |
| 6 | After a few moments , the dancers from the previous number could be seen filing out from behind the golden curtain , having exited on the far side of the stage ; their faces were slack and tired , their breathing hard . |
| 7 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 8 | He also noticed the other door in the far side wall , peeping out from behind the thick red arras . |
| 9 | Just then , a big grey wolf stepped out from behind the large green plant . |
| 10 | Val Gardena often gives second-rank skiers a chance of top 15 because the sun pops out from behind the huge massif of Sassolungo and warms and quickens the piste . |
| 11 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |