Sentence examples for behind the trenches from inspiring English sources

Among them will be two major TV dramas on BBC One: The Ark will take viewers into the lives of the medics and their patients at a fictional field hospital behind the trenches in France; while The Passing Bells tells the story of the war through the eyes of two very ordinary young men.

The Arabs initially met the Turgesh attack on horseback, but as their casualties mounted, Junayd's herald ordered them to dismount and fight on foot, crouching down behind the trenches and forming a spear-wall.

There is nothing more embarrassing than leading your troops over the top, only to discover that they stayed behind in the trench.

In making a trench, soil from the excavation is used to create raised parapets running both in front of and behind the trench.

As additional magma breaks through the cracks in the crust, one or more spreading centres develop, which widen the seafloor and expand the section of the overlying plate behind the trench.

Similarly, in the Sumatra subduction system, a high gravity anomaly zone exists behind the trench (approximately 93° E to 97° E and 2.5° N to 6° N), where series of fracture zones intersect the Sumatra trench (Figure 2b).

The trenches were part of a simple, but effective makeshift perimeter defense: A low wall of dirt was thrown up behind the trench, then topped with tall stakes, to create a defensive barrier almost 3 meters wide and 3 meters high.

(If shooting off of hill top, skip the next step) Put stakes in the top of the hill and in the ground behind the trench and attach one or more tarps.

They became friends and fellow-partygoers, collecting experiences they would use years later in the lyrics for "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F .." In 2007, Perry got big; McKee remained behind, "in the trenches of Hollywood," writing and recording songs "in shithole studios behind Carl's Jr. junior".

They sit beneath a makeshift shelter of tree branches and canvass, their Russian weapons left behind in the trenches facing west.

From these data, we consider that the present depositional setting (beach ridge and behind marsh) around the trench sites was already established by 6 ka.