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Example sentences for "close behind"

  • I did not know that any one was near me, but on getting up and looking round, saw one of the officers of the Colonial Boys—now Captain, then Lieutenant Windley—close behind me.

  • I had dismounted and was sitting down to get a steady shot when some one said close behind me, "Look out, they're coming down on us from the left.

  • The Matabele came on close behind, and our men were hardly in laager when they rushed out into the open from the bush, with the evident intention of charging the laager.

  • Something slid too in his breast, and he stole up close behind.

  • At the sight of my terror he sprang to his feet, and was about to rush back to camp for his gun; but straightway the bear appeared, and so close behind me that he knew there was no time to get the weapon.

  • Close behind Baizley's team came another, driven by Tamin Landry, a little Frenchman from down the river.

  • Close behind, though I could not spare time to look back, I could hear the animal plunging in pursuit, and I was drenched with the spray of her splashings.

  • As we pulled up close behind him he wallowed into the shadow of some tall pines where the crust, unexposed to the sun, was hard and firm.

  • Ab had reached the fire wall with the speed of a great runner while, close behind him, came his eager following.

  • She but fished away demurely, from time to time hauling up a flashing finny thing, which she calmly bumped on the rock and then tossed upon the silvery heap, which had already assumed fair dimensions, close behind her.

  • With Daniels, Whittaker and Halliday in the lead and the others trailing on close behind, they came down the middle of the street on a half run, plainly revealed in the bright moonlight.

  • We must be close behind him," he said, "or that sand would not still be trembling on the edge like that.

  • And presently, close behind a clump of bushes, they saw two little shoe-prints clearly defined in the sand.

  • It's nitroglycerine" The tunnel caused its roof to cave in close behind me A mountain lion sneaked past my saddle-pillowed head I.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    close arrest; close attention; close behind; close confinement; close covered; close embrace; close enough; close examination; close formation; close friend; close prisoner; close range; close resemblance; close upon; close vessel; closed circuit; closed eyes; closed system; closely bound; closely covered; closely followed; closely resembles; closer examination; has already been pointed; hoofed animals; intransitive verb