What if the Dervishes should cut the line behind them?
Before them was a line of lifeless bodyguards; behind them a score of less important chiefs; and behind these, again, a litter of killed and wounded horses.
The small force were 125 miles from their base; behind them lay an almost waterless country, and in front was a powerful enemy.
Behind them, in a solid square, was the transport, guarded by Lewis's brigade.
Still walking beside the Gave, leaving the town farther and farther behind them, they were lulled as it were by the noise of those clear waters rolling over the pebbles between banks shaded by trees.
Behind them was a one-seated sleigh drawn by a horse that looked ready to drop from exhaustion.
And with this remark he turned his back on the crowd, and soon he and his cronies were making their way up along the lake shore, dragging the Yellow Streak behind them.
If anyone happens to be coming up behind them, man or woman, do you imagine that they will put themselves half an inch out of their way?
I was creeping up behind them softly, that they might not hear me.
Then they placed themselves at the head of their escort of dragoons, the lackeys fell in behind them, and they started at a fast pace.
They had left the cooking pan and their tools, with the exception of the crowbar, behind them, and had fastened their wooden shoes round their necks.
As soon as they had passed through the crowd Hector gave the order for his troops to face about, and they again burst their way through the mob that had closed in behind them.
They entered and closed it behind them, and they then felt about until they found a pile of rough fodder.
Ignorant of what was going on behind them, the crowd above the spot where the stones had fallen were still pressing upward, those in front hewing with their scythes and axes at the pikeheads.
Behind them I saw an awful nightmare of a man--a man whose face and bare cropped head and hands and shoes were all of a livid, poisonous, green cast.
Behind them a stenciling of poplars rose against the sky line.
What they must face before them could not equal what they left behind them; so they went on.
Behind them came a gay concourse of nobles, drawn out in one long glittering line, which, like a gilded serpent, glided through the darksome windings of that gloomy palace of justice.
The two young men went out arm in arm, followed by the suite of the elector, and, behind them, by Conrad and Antonio.
Behind them, in another carriage, came the aja, with the crown prince of Austria in her arms.
She now sprang to her feet, and hastily pushing aside a row of pipkins, opened a small door which had been concealed behind them, above the mantel.
There is also a random library of novels, which former fishermen have thoughtfully left behind them.
That is, this force might climb the slopes behind them, and attack from above?
The opposing lines extended a distance of nearly forty miles, and Richmond was only twenty miles behind them.
But they cleared the ground, though some of their own saddles were emptied, and the infantry and the artillery came up behind them.
Have they not therefore considered what is before them, and what is behind them, of the heaven and the earth?
More passages of this kind might be produced from the Jewish writers; and the Christians come not far behind them.
He knoweth that which is before them, and that which is behind them: and unto GOD shall all things return.
He knoweth that which is before them, and that which is behind them; they shall not intercede for any, except for whom it shall please him; and they tremble for fear of him.
They picked up their feet and flew across the browned pastures, and when they halted, panting in the steam of their own breath, the dead leaves whirled up behind them.
As the last of the team were climbing to their seats, a motor-cycle with a side-car, coming from the north, pulled up behind them.
Behind them was a small, deep hollow, where the ancient stump of some great tree had rotted.
The circling lash took each wheeler in turn, while the load still ran light behind them, and Tod, honest worker, answered relief with fresh effort.
In the lower part of the picture are the four Latin Fathers, turning over their great books, or in deep meditation; behind them, the Franciscan Bernardino of Siena.
They found it impossible to wipe their feet upon the mat because it was thick with snow, and when the door was closed behind them, they were surprised to feel that it was snowing even harder inside the house than it was out.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behind them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
