Example sentences of "had [verb] behind in the " in BNC.

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1 A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share .
2 Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates .
3 With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast .
4 Mrs Hobbs had stayed behind in the hotel at Ouerzzazate because of the heat ; Richard and Flora because there was to be a celebration for the King of the Belgians and Flora wanted to see the women dancing .
5 The exchange was not always beneficial ; migrants from the old inner areas often regretted the life they had left behind in the move to a more open plan or high-rise environment ( Young and Wilmott 1954 ) .
6 Another waiter came up to him then with a bundle of letters and cash that he had left behind in the foyer and forgotten .
7 Shocked and exhausted by the severity of the work and his illness , he had spoken little of himself or the family he had left behind in the north .
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