Example sentences of "behind [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | After a series of high speed taxi-runs , at 8:38am on September 21 , 1964 NAA 's Chief Test Pilot , Al White , and the USAF 's project pilot Colonel Joe Cotton lifted 20001 off the runway by the 5,000 foot marker , leaving behind them a sooty trail from the six most powerful jet engines then known to exist . |
| 3 | Behind them a young man with a paint-flecked beard followed the designer about the set , twitching the hem of the velvet curtains hung at the window and rearranging the ornaments on the mantelpiece . |
| 4 | Behind them a huge force of Orcs moved to block their escape . |
| 5 | To his left were three NYPD police cars , parked bumper to bumper , and behind them a human chain of police officers , all armed with handguns and rifles . |
| 6 | A sailor stood beside the captain , behind them a dozen men in jungle fatigues and black berets . |
| 7 | The earliest settlers left behind them a remarkable array of monuments : standing stones , burial chambers , villages and brochs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the table behind them a white man has passed out , the side of his face resting in a beer spill . |
| 10 | Behind them an old woman is standing , staring constantly at the fruit machine . |
| 11 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 12 | Behind her a young sapling is about to bloom . |
| 13 | As soon as the meal was over Didi excused herself on the grounds of a headache , leaving behind her an uneasy silence . |
| 14 | He gripped a pair of reins in his hand and behind him a blaze-faced chestnut nosed at the cobbles , whilst the two wolves sat by his feet . |
| 15 | In the interests of the club , he accepted the deal , and moved to Woolwich Arsenal leaving behind him a respectable record of 65 goals in 178 appearances . |
| 16 | ( Immediately , behind him a grand procession enters , principally CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE , POLONIUS and OPHELIA . |
| 17 | His Supremacy will leave behind him a cosmic creature which a group of utterly dedicated masters can operate . |
| 18 | His sports paper having mysteriously disappeared , the Duty Officer scratched furiously at a vast form , a flush , as ominous as a gathering storm began to show on Frau Nordern 's neck , and then the door of the office opened , the Sergeant came out , and behind him a stocky man in plain clothes , smoking a cigar , and blinking through bloodshot eyes , waved Frau Nordern forward . |
| 19 | Leaving behind him a suburban town of 100,000 people on the potato patch , Levitt went on to build bigger Levittowns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . |
| 20 | Behind him a Trojan woman storms by , hair wild — Cassandra ? |
| 21 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
| 24 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 25 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
| 26 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 27 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 28 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 29 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 30 | Behind us an impatient motorist tooted a horn . |