Sentence examples for behind the platform from inspiring English sources

"We approach these challenges with compassionate conservatism, a concept that is as old as the pioneers heading west in wagon trains, in which everyone had responsibility to follow the rules, but no one would be left behind," the platform says.

Then I spotted them, behind the platform, in an enclosure roofed with dark-green sheeting hung from poles.

Hoisted behind the platform where Bush would speak was a large sign that said: "Jeb can fix it".

On the wall behind the platform were signs saying "BREAK A LEG" and "MONOGRAM PICTURES CORP. ENTRANCE," and nearby was a montage painting of famous comedians — Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplin, Milton Berle, and Abbott and Costello.

These days we are constantly checking out the person behind the platform to see how well they live up to the image we have of them, as if we were considering hiring them to play on our team.

Jake Arnott's hypnotic, feverish and altogether wonderful Johnny Come Home - his first novel after the brilliant Long Firm trilogy - embraces the unfashionable idea that perhaps real passion simmered behind the platform shoes and glitter make-up; that beneath the enervating malaise was a vital, electrifying anger.

This is the story of the people left behind on the platform when the last train late at night goes out of Grand Central Terminal.

"Most weeks there's a day where only two carriages turn up and people are left behind on the platform to wait for the next train.

But EU leaders are also slowly coming to realise that it is better to absorb and rehabilitate the Balkan countries than to leave them behind on the platform, as destitute troublemakers.

"My husband has been left behind on the platform!" The TT heard her clamor and marched up to the girl.

The singing eventually spread to the white officers and missionaries seated behind Higginson on the platform, before the colonel curtly commanded, "Leave it to them".