138 examples of get behind in sentences

But beside wilful bias and unfairness, there is unconscious bias from which none of us are free, but from which we need to be delivered by mutual criticism; for, however much a man can see of himself, he can never get behind his own back.

Really, one would not wish to get behind so great a nation, nor yet go much before it.

called out Flockley, but even as he spoke he took good care to get behind another sophomore.

"Get behind the curtain and put on your fighting kit.

"We'll trot at first till we get behind the li'l hill out yonder.

Just as it was well to get behind the money terms, in which we often think of capital, to the real goods; so we have now to get behind the real goods to something else.

Just as it was well to get behind the money terms, in which we often think of capital, to the real goods; so we have now to get behind the real goods to something else.

It is true that, when we get behind the money in which it is measured, we come upon commodities, like food and clothes and houses and factories, which seem comfortably solid and objective things; but we also come upon many services, like those of gardeners and doctors and hospital nurses, which we are bound to reckon as part of our wealth, although they are not embodied in any tangible commodities.

"It is difficult, however long you stay in India, to get behind these fellows' minds, to understand the thoughts and the motives which move them.

"They're trying to see who can get behind!

"Then wot I advise is that we gallop to the broken sand hillocks ye see yonder, get behind them, an' take a peep at the Redskins.

The smallest, the cowards, the men who get behind stones and stick there, will probably survive.

Anazeh beckoned me to come and get behind him for protection.

" "You can get behind that screen if you like.

Then at Naples: go to San Carlos'; and if you get behind the scenes, ask for Braccini, the poetá of the theatre, who has been long in England; "Cospetto di Bacco!"

Get behind these trunks where they cannot see us.

I shall never get over wanting to get behind some man if I see a cow.

Now you get behind the Moon and hold her up through the next scene.

Did you get behind them?"

A little approving smile crept around the corners of Nyoda's eyes as she heard Hinpoha so resolutely bidding Satan get behind her.

Sometimes he would get behind a Board Fence to see the Wife of the Postmaster break off a Yellow Rose and pass it over the Gate to the Superintendent of the High School.

The plan was to slip out as soon as it was really dark with a machine-gun and a dozen men, get behind the Germans' own sandbags, and give them a perfectly informal reception when they returned to go on with their work.

"Come quickly, though, so we shall get behind them and be able to get near the camp.

"We must creep along the sand until we reach those bushes up there, and then we can get behind them.

"And I'll get behind you with a poker in One hand and a pitcher of hot water in the other.

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