Behind

Definition

behind /bÇ'haÇnd/ prep ၁။ (က) ေနာက္က။ ေနာက္မွာ။ Who's the girl standing behind Richard? ❍ Stay close behind me in the crowd. ❍ The golf course is behind our house. ❍ a small street behind the station ❍ She glanced behind her. ❍ work behind the counter (eg as a sales assistant in a shop) ❍ Don't forget to lock the door behind you (ie when you leave). ❍ ( fig ) The accident is behind you now (ie in the past), so try to forget about it. (ခ) အကြယ္ ၏ေနာက္၌။ hide behind a tree ❍ Behind the curtain she found a door. ❍ The sun disappeared behind the clouds. ❍ ( fig ) Behind his severe manner he's a very kind man. Compare IN FRONT OF ❍ BEFORE ၂။ ေနာက္က်က်န္ေသာ။ ေနာက္၌ေရာက္ေနေသာ။ He's behind the rest of the class in reading. ❍ Britain is behind Japan in developing modern technology. ❍ be behind schedule (ie late). ၃။ ေနာက္က ေထာက္ခံေသာ။ My family is right behind me in my ambition to become a doctor. ❍ He can't win the election with only 30% of the voters behind him. ၄။ ေနာက္ကြယ္၊ ေနာက္ခံအျဖစ္ရိွေသာ။ the thought that was behind the suggestion ❍ the man behind the plan to build a new hospital. adv part ၁။ ေနာက္မွာ။ She cycled off down the road with the dog running behind. ❍ The others are a long way behind. ❍ What have we left behind (ie after going away)? ❍ Don't look behind or you may fall. ❍ He was shot from behind as he ran away. ❍ We had fallen so far behind that it seemed pointless continuing. ❍ I was told to stay behind after school (ie remain in school after lesson were over). Compare IN FRONT (FRONT) ❍ BEFORE ၂။ ~ (with/in sth) (ေပးရန္၊ ၿပီးရန္) ေနာက္က်လ်က္။ I'm terribly behind (with the rent) this month. ❍ He's behind in handing in his homework. n ( infml euph ) တင္ပါး။ She fell backwards and landed on her behind. ❍ He kicked the boy's behind. ❏ be behind sth [ IDM ] [ဥ] ေနာက္ကြယ္တြင္။ What's behind the smart suit and eager smile?

Examples

1. The teacher was standing behind me
2. looking over my shoulder.
3. Some papers had fallen behind the cupboard.
4. Harry went out and shut the door behind him (=after he had gone through it).
5. [from behind] : Someone grabbed me from behind and pulled me to the ground.
6. You walk ahead and we’ll follow along behind.
7. The other runners were a long way behind Benson.
8. The manager was sitting behind an enormous desk.
9. We could hide behind those bushes.
10. Police believe that a racist group is behind the attacks.
11. What’s behind this sudden change of policy?
12. The project is already a month behind schedule.
13. I’m sorry your suit isn’t ready yet. We’ve got a bit behind with things.
14. [be/get/fall behind] : Within a few months she had fallen behind with her rent.
15. A few people stayed behind to clear up.
16. They left two of us behind to guard the luggage.
17. Some of the equipment got left behind.
18. I’ve been ill – that’s why I’m behind everyone else in maths and French.
19. Technology in Eastern Europe was at least 20 years behind the West.
20. The Americans were falling behind in the competitive world of automobile design.
21. Davis is still behind in recent opinion polls.
22. [behind by] : At half time
23. our team was behind by 12 points.
24. You’re doing a great job
25. and I want you to know we’re right behind you.
26. Not everyone in the Cabinet was behind Thatcher’s policies.
27. When it came to a crisis
28. they all rallied behind their leader.
29. Behind her quiet shy manner there is a passionate spirit.
30. It was an evil business conducted behind a show of respectability.
31. Parents are demanding to know the truth behind these disturbing rumours.
32. The terrible story behind the fur trade
33. With the trauma of the divorce behind her
34. Sandra could look forward to a better life.
35. [put something behind you] : Sure
36. I made some bad mistakes
37. but I want to put all that behind me now and think about the future.
38. Robinson entered politics with 20 years’ business experience behind him.