How to use "behind" in a sentence

I sit behind the pilot and watch blood pour slowly down my arm.

Then, as the others made their way back to their vehicles, I stayed behind for a few minutes

The moon came out from behind the clouds and we saw that Abraham Lincoln was too far away

They put us into a dark room, then closed the door behind us

We jumped into the boat, leaving all our food and guns behind

We hid behind some rocks so he couldn't see us

As he said this, a bright light appeared from behind the mountain of rocks in front of us.

Alice put her hands behind her back and repeated:

It started to move away a minute later, it vanished behind a flower and Alice never saw it again.

Alice put them behind some trees.

'That's not polite,' said the King and got behind Alice.

There were bullets flying all round me from behind - and then I saw more enemy soldiers in the low grass in front of me! They were shooting at our men on the hill.

It was in the afternoon, and the man behind the bar said, Jenny'll be here about nine o'clock.'

Suddenly, a door behind me opened - and there was Jenny!

Suddenly, the door opened behind me, and there was Jenny.

I went up behind her and said, 'That looks like a nice apple.' She didn't look up

Twenty or more stayed behind in the clubroom upstairs

Schwartz thought the man was following him, but a few moments later when he looked back, there was nobody behind him.

Had the killer seized the scarf from behind and pulled her to the ground, where he cut her throat?

It happened in Castle Alley, close behind Hutchinson's home

Just as he reached the side of the bishop's bed, the moon came out from behind a cloud and filled the room with light

Madeleine was allowed to sit behind the judge's chair

She was cold and hungry as she dragged the bucket behind her along the crowded street, but she could not resist stopping in front of one of the stalls

She had soon left the colourful lights and the happy laughter of the village behind her, and was running down the hill into the frightening darkness of the wood

It seemed empty, although he could not see into the shadows behind the trees

He tied one end of the wire around Cosette's waist, climbed the wall and, with great difficulty, pulled the girl up behind him

Slamming the door shut behind her she cried victoriously, 'He's coming!'

He went into his room, pushing the door behind him, but the door would not shut

She left immediately, closing the door behind her.

Finally, he heard a small sound behind him and, turning round, he saw that Cosette was in tears.

A large crowd followed behind, waving flags and carrying swords and heavy sticks

While the fifty men behind the barricade waited impatiently for the arrival of sixty thousand soldiers, Enjolras approached the tall, grey-haired man.

Someone fired a gun and a bullet hit a wall just behind him, but he didn't care.

Marius stood behind an alley wall, hidden in the shadows

Marius stood up and ran along a series of alleys that led into the rue de la Chanvrerie, behind the Corinth wine shop

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

Then, noticing the pool of blood on the ground behind her, cried, 'You're wounded! I'll carry you to the inn

More soldiers moved into position at the end of the street, behind the cannon, and started to build a low wall with pieces of broken stone

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

When Marius had been hit, Valjean ran to him at once, grabbed him before he fell and carried his unconscious body into a small alley behind the wine shop

On the other side was the low barricade, behind which hundreds of soldiers waited for rebels trying to escape

When Valjean was outside, Thenardier closed the gate behind him and disappeared, like a rat, into the darkness of the sewers.

Then, just as he was bending to splash water from the river on Marius's face, he was aware of someone else standing behind him

He understood, and went downstairs with Javert close behind him

I try to stand, but then I realise that my head hurts and that there is a sharp pain behind my right ear

Do I hear voices in the fog behind me? I try to turn to look, but the fog behind me is too thick, and I only see the occasional light in the distance.

"Yes," a voice replies, "and this is where it ends." And a tall man steps from behind one of the silent giants.

"You got him, Detective?" a voice says behind me.

And look, the blood behind his ear is where she hit him before she escaped."

Only Hastings can see now, but we stand behind him

The sun is almost down behind the green, snowy mountains now, and it is colder than before

And the brothers laugh as they watch Gerry and the truck drive up the road to Hobbs Creek while the great Australian sun begins to fall behind the horizon.

And Big Jones looks up at him and is about to shout when suddenly he looks behind Gerry, and the colour disappears from his face.

But they are better than the dirty old jeans and green jacket that are now in a bin behind the shop where they sit.

There is another shout from behind him, but Jake keeps moving

"That's mine," the man's voice says behind him

"Father?" he says, but there is no reply, and he can see no movement behind the grille that separates his small space from the other.

Then suddenly the road is not empty: there is a car behind him

In the mirror he sees the cop car park behind him, and he watches a young, tall cop get out.

Dan wants to see the eyes behind the glasses but cannot.

He walks around to the trunk, the cop behind him, and he pushes the button

But then he hears someone running behind him, and he screams instead.

Now, alone in the forest, he thinks he can hear the sound of feet in the snow behind him, and he tries to move faster.

And the man in the dark winter coat and black hat, who appeared from behind the trees.

But then another truck appeared on the road behind him.

And they put him behind it, in a deep dark corner where no one could see him and the light disappeared as they put the last bricks in place

And for a while he thought that he would die in the deep dark corner behind the wall

Keep to your left but not directly behind you

But then they reach another clearing, and they hear something behind the trees.

There is a snap from behind the trees, and Owen thinks that maybe he should put his gun down, in a bush, nice and carefully like he told Junior to do

But then Owen sees what is behind the trees: brown hair, big gentle eyes..

Owen feels an incredible pain in his behind, and he screams and falls to the floor.

"It's you and me, right? And a waterfall behind us." He smiled

I don't want to be left behind - do you?"

And the people you'd leave behind

There was a grand ancient building on the banks of a river behind her.

The night sky appeared behind him, then the flames at the edge of a star

"I couldn't possibly leave you all behind."

that would mean leaving Cham behind forever." Sala's eyes filled with tears

He put a cushion behind his head and lit a cigarette.

Suddenly I shivered as though a door had opened behind me

As I turned to go back to the stairs, I heard a door open behind me

His eyes smiled at me from behind his thick glasses

As we reached the car, the sun went behind a cloud and a little rain began to fall

I saw that the valley was behind us

Then I heard voices and, without thinking, I hid behind the door

He saw me standing behind the door

As I stood looking down at the bed, I heard a step behind me.

'Sometimes I feel she is standing here, behind me

I went into the small room behind the library and picked up the telephone

It was very hot, but the sun was hidden behind the wall of fog

I went out of the room quickly and shut the door behind me

I shut the cabin door behind me, climbed into the dinghy and rowed back

'The door is behind you.'

Then Mrs Danvers came in and shut the door behind her.

He shut the door behind him

The hours passed and the miles went by, Favell's car always behind us.

Favell's car was always behind us.

'The dawn seems to be coming up over there, behind those hills

'There's a police car behind us,' says Nathan

Gradually, day by day, week by week, she had put Danny behind her, with sorrow, with guilt, with tears and much bitterness, but also with firmness and determination

She wasn't a dancer anymore; now she worked behind the curtain, in the production end of the show, but she still felt physically and psychologically best when she weighed no more than she had weighed when she'd been a performer.

Both the VIP premiere and the opening night of Magyck! Would be behind her by then

Shivering, she thoroughly erased the words on the chalkboard, retrieved her handgun, and left the room, pulling the door shut behind her.

But an image of it appeared behind her eyes

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

Tina wanted to stay in the wings throughout the performance, but she could do nothing more behind the curtains

Elliot, this lovely young lady is Christina Evans, the guiding hand behind Magyck!"

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

As Vivienne reached the back of the house, the crescent moon slid out from behind one of the few thin clouds, like a scimitar being drawn from a scabbard, and the pale shadows of palms and melaleucas shivered on the lunar-silvered concrete patio.

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

One dropped behind the sofa, and the other tumbled onto it.

Puzzled, frowning thoughtfully, Vivienne put down the knife, pulled one end of the sofa away from the wall, and collected the framed eight-by-tens that were on the floor behind it

The maddening electronic squeal issued from a pair of small stereo speakers that hung on the wall behind the bed

Hundreds of other people stood close behind the players, watching impatiently, waiting for a seat to open

A horn tooted behind her.

The windows behind the drapes faced the Las Vegas Strip.

Just a couple of hours ago she had concluded that the person behind this harassment had to be a stranger

I thought I'd put the worst pain behind me

No James Bond cars with machine guns hidden behind the headlights

He walked her to her Honda in the driveway and leaned in the window after she was behind the wheel, delaying her for another fifteen minutes while he planned, to her satisfaction, every dish of this evening's dinner.

Approximately two hundred guests danced or milled about behind the house, and another hundred partied within its twenty rooms.

He had just opened a bottle of balsamic vinegar and poured four ounces into a measuring cup when he heard movement behind him.

A second man appeared behind the first

Elliot dropped the measuring cup and seized the gun, but Vince reflexively squeezed off a shot that breezed past Elliot's face and smashed the window behind the sink

"I just wanted to let you know I was going, so you could lock the door behind me."

He followed close behind her

He was safe, close behind her, knocked off balance by the force of the shock wave, staggering forward, but unhurt.

When she was in the car, he shut her door, ran to the driver's side, and climbed in behind the steering wheel.

He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a black van pull away from the curb, half a block behind them.

He sat stiffly behind the wheel, clenching his teeth, wondering if a bullet would crack through the windshield and shatter his face.

And in a small local election like the one Kennebeck won, stacking the deck would be easy if you had enough money and government muscle behind you."

And now, just when I'm beginning to think I can face up to it and put it behind me, I discover he might not have died accidentally after all

Elliot drove behind the restaurant and tucked the Mercedes into a slot in the deepest shadows, between a Toyota Celica and a small motor home, where it could not be seen from the street.

The cashier was a white-haired man, owlish behind a pair of thick spectacles

The white-haired cashier came out from behind the counter

The old man crouched beside the machine, reached behind it, found the button

In that instant Tina realized she had nothing to fear from the presence that lay behind this eerie manifestation

Jenny, the waitress, called to him from behind the counter

They put their heads down and scurried past the front of the diner, around the side, through the purple light under the single mercury-vapor lamp, and into the deep shadows behind the building.

"This secret police force, these people behind Kennebeck..

She slipped a hand behind his neck, holding his face close

Bruckster fell in beside and slightly behind his target as they pressed through the teeming mob that jammed the enormous casino

Alexander went to the huge maple desk and sat behind it, in Kennebeck's wing chair.

The rear windows were blank, black; a sentry might be standing behind any of them, invisible in the darkness.

At the first window with light behind it, Elliot stopped

He motioned for Tina to stay behind him, close to the house

He helped Tina over the cemetery wall, and then, clambering after her, he was sure that someone grabbed his coat from behind

Twin plumes of crystallized breath trailed behind them, like ghosts.

He didn't hear a shot, but a bullet shattered the rear side window behind his head and slammed into the back of the front seat, spraying gummy bits of safety glass through the car.

Tina raised her head, glanced at the empty street behind them, then looked at Elliot

"The two of us can't fight the entire organization that's behind Kennebeck plus the staff of some secret military research center."

We'll give you a condensed version of the story behind all of this, and we'll record it as we go

He sighed and drove through the gate, which swung shut behind the Explorer.

There are thousands of acres behind the fence, and the lab is right smack in the middle

Not a single tree or any other sizable object remained, nothing behind which a man could hide

The outer door slid shut behind them - whoosh - making an airtight seal.

"You're crazy," Hensen said from his seat behind the pilot.

"People are going to be behind some of them."

The elevator doors closed behind them, and around them, the air grew warmer again.

Because he had the pistol, Elliot went through first, but Tina was close behind him.

Covering the strangers with the menacing, silencer-equipped pistol, Elliot said, "Tina, close the door behind us

Elliot climbed behind the wheel and fumbled with the keys

He lives in our grandfather's old house on the hill behind the factory.'

I heard Andre moving behind the door, then it opened

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that he was standing behind the door

I went out and sank down to the floor crying as he locked the door behind me

And as he was writing, someone came in through the garden doors, came up behind the colonel and shot him

She took the pistol from the pot, came up behind him and shot him

I pressed back against the person behind me, and turned my head towards the Thing again

There was a loud scream from a woman behind

He hid behind a broken wall as one of the Martian tripods returned

I saw one old man with a big box and a number of flower-pots, angrily arguing with a soldier who wanted him to leave them behind.

It ran across the river and the water behind it boiled

I used my hands to keep it moving, down the river towards Walton, going very slowly and often looking behind me

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

Some distance behind them was a man on an old-fashioned bicycle

He heard people running in the rooms, and up and down the stairs behind him

There were shouts of fear, the guns suddenly left behind, men on the ground struggling to breathe, and the fast spreading of the dark smoke - a silent black cloud hiding its dead.

Then, realizing that he was alone, he ran along the road after the cart, with the big man behind him

'Point the gun at the man behind,' he said, giving it to her, 'it he pushes us too hard

One ship was passing behind another; many were turning

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

We stood for a moment in terror, then ran through a gate behind us into a garden and hid in a corner until the stars were out.

With these it was taking pieces of metal out of the cylinder and laying them on the earth behind it

He disappeared behind the pile of earth and for a moment there was silence

Before he was half-way across the floor, I was right behind him

I could see in every direction except behind me and there were no Martians in sight.

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

I was tired after eating and went into the room behind the bar and slept on a black leather sofa that I found there.

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

Had I spoken my thought aloud? I turned, and the door to the garden was open behind me

Holmes, with a laugh, put his hand behind the ear of the little girl, and pulled off the mask, and there was a little coal-black girl

Harris said, 'George! Why can't George be here to do some work? Why doesn't he help us with this heavy boat? What does he do at the bank? He sits behind a piece of glass all day and does nothing

They were pulling a rope behind them, and they were talking

The wind was behind us and we put up the sail quickly

'It's behind you.'

The hamper was behind us

There, behind me, stood a woman dressed completely in white.

'I hid behind that tree to see what kind of man you were

As I passed a policeman, I heard a carriage on the road behind me

As Laura was reading Anne's note, she heard footsteps behind her

'Certainly!' said the Count's voice behind me

I tried to hide my disgust behind a false smile.

'I saw a woman by the lake, but I only saw her from behind.'

White people sat in the front of the line, and black people had to sit behind it

The Man behind the Mask