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Example sentences for "behind her"

  • It was a warning so insistent that she suddenly and swiftly drew back, as if she would flee into the room behind her.

  • Finally he heard his wife come out of the room and close the door behind her.

  • After a few minutes, Biddy came softly up behind her.

  • She walked faster and faster because she was afraid Tembarom would follow her, and in a few minutes she heard him splashing behind her, and then he was at her side, holding the umbrella over her head.

  • He jumped up and, taking one from a sofa, began to arrange it behind her dexterously.

  • She heard me behind her--I took care that she should--but she made no sign that she had heard or knew that I was there.

  • Neale, coming up behind her, from the road.

  • Someone came in behind her, without knocking or ringing.

  • She ran out into the night, forgetting that the man was close behind her now, forgetting that little Joan was alone in her bed.

  • That same night the moon flooded the top of the Sun Rock with a golden light, and out into the glow of it came Gray Wolf, with her three little whelps toddling behind her.

  • A large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach she had not heard.

  • When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.

  • All that she understood was that she was leaving the Thenardier tavern behind her.

  • Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the door fall heavily to behind her.

  • He was bent on knowing what that ruined wretch left behind her?

  • Her act was greeted by strange whistling sounds from the things behind her, and casting a glance over her shoulder she saw them all in rapid pursuit.

  • Almost immediately it was answered from the opposite side of the valley, behind her, and then from the distance to the right of her, and twice upon her left.

  • Behind her, urged on by the malevolent power of the great brain, the headless body crawled upon all-fours toward her.

  • She opened the door, closed it behind her.

  • And, behind her, the doors of the Sutherland Hotel opened and its office lit up, in preparation for any chance arrivals.

  • Behind her pale, unrevealing face there was the agonized throb of an aching heart, but she had the confidence of her honest, utter love; he would surely soften, would surely forgive.

  • Unluckily the light from the room behind her fell on his face, and with a shrill cry she named him.

  • Then the Carlats and the others closed up behind her, Badelon's monotonous "Forward, Madame, en avant!

  • She turned--and there was a blank wall, without door or window, behind her.

  • One may well wonder what room for consideration there was--with all her work lying undone behind her.

  • The great folding doors fell to behind her; and the same moment the king and queen were quarrelling like apes as to which of them was to blame for her departure.

  • Of these she opened one, pushed the princess gently in, and closed it behind her.

  • The gate clanged to behind her; ten steps, and the boat, the creek, and the farther shore were hidden from her sight.

  • The heavy door shut to behind her; unseeing still she moved toward the fire, but in a moment let fall her hand and began to wonder at the unwonted lights.

  • Behind her, at no great distance, was the glebe house; more than once she thought she heard Hugon coming through the bushes and calling her by name.

  • Be that as it may, when she had flung her hood upon the bed and had looked at herself in the cracked glass above the dresser, she went out of the room, and closed the door somewhat softly behind her.

  • Slowly, she pushed the door to, behind her.

  • The girl had ridden half the distance, perhaps, from the canyon gates to the Ranger Station when, above the roar of the mountain stream, her quick ear caught the sound of an automobile, behind her.

  • It seemed as if Cranch had tried to answer with a kiss, for the girl drew suddenly away from him with a coquettish fling of the black braids, and whipped her little brown hands behind her.

  • She slipped through the door, and softly closed it behind her.

  • He could see her still, as she stood there with her hands behind her, defying him.

  • She entered the room, and the Squire closed the door behind her, pointing mutely to the things on the floor.

  • Elizabeth and Aubrey were not long behind her.

  • She turned on hearing the deep breathing of Pepin and the shambling of Antoine as they passed over some loose gravel behind her.

  • She must have presented a strange sight to the party, bound as she was, and with her long hair streaming behind her.

  • The first thing that the two villains proceeded to do was to tie Dorothy's hands, not too closely, however, behind her back.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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