Curdie had just put him betwixt him and the wall, behind the door, when in rushed the butler with the huge kitchen poker, the point of which he had blown red-hot in the fire, followed by the cook with his longest spit.
So Bumpo and I went down into the hold; and there, behind the flour-bags, plastered in flour from head to foot, we found a man.
And there, behind the barrel, sure enough, we found an enormous bearded man fast asleep with a well-fed look on his face.
And I got up behind the coach to eat mine, because she told me to.
Her self-possession was wonderful, but there were moments when, behind the mask of her face, inscrutable as it had always been to him, lurked an expression he had never been used to see there.
The sun was down now, behind the house, and over the 'prospect' a luminous haze had settled, emanation of the long and prosperous day.
In Montpellier Square their cabman, following his instructions to the letter, faithfully drew up behind thecab in front.
There, on the window-sill, behind the curtains, was a bowl of jessamine.
The moon indeed was palest gold behind the pines, so that its radiance was a mere shower of pollen, just a brushing of white moth-down over the reeds of their little dark pond, and the black blur of the flowering currant bushes.
Behind the veneer of poise and polish born of success and adulation she had caught a glimpse of the Russian peasant boy delighted with the crude toy in his hand.
He was fascinated by these crisp phrases, but he was ten years or so behind the times, and he sometimes startled his hearers by an exhibition of slang so old as to be almost new.
Aloysius, doubled upbehind the lamps, knew what was coming, from the gleam in his boss's eye.
He is behind the doors, in the closed cupboard, in the wardrobe, under the bed, in every dark corner.
Behind the door, behind the curtains of the yellow damask room next to the hall, she was surely awaiting him; in another moment he should see her, and be able to speak to her before she led him to the sick-room.
Suddenly her husband rose with an oath, seized the novel, and threw it behind the fire.
She sighed, looking towards the large recess from behind the curtains of which there came, at intervals, a long sobbing breath like the sleeping wail of a beaten child who has cried bitterly.
Behind the drummer, two matchlock-men are seated at the end of the table.
Yes, but who is that hanging on behind the carriage?
Now their grave is behind the temple of Artemis, turned towards the East, close to the banqueting hall of the Keïeans.
Behind the division of the Dauphin, which had pressed them so hard, stood a second division hardly less numerous, led by the Duke of Orleans.
Then, behind the door, he again asked Iddibal whether he was quite sure that they had not been noticed.
In fact the Carthaginians had fallen back behind the bridge, and to deceive the Barbarians the Suffet had stationed numerous posts upon the other bank.
One morning she found it coiled up behind the bed of ox-hides, colder than marble, and with its head hidden by a heap of worms.
Arborescences, hillocks, eddies, and ill-defined animals appeared in their diaphanous thickness; and the light came terrifying and yet peaceful as it must be behind the sun in the dull spaces of future creations.
It was thought that he had gone towards the amber country, behind the pillars of Melkarth.
The trees and flowers wore an awakened look in the gleams of light that came stealing down from behind the purple of the clouds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behind the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
