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Discover LudwigThe phrase "being dragged behind" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that someone or something is being pulled or moved along behind something else. Example: The young child was being dragged behind his mother as she rushed through the crowded streets. In this sentence, "being dragged behind" describes the action of the child being pulled along behind his mother. It could also be used in a figurative sense to describe feeling behind or struggling to keep up with something or someone. For example, "The company was being dragged behind its competitors in terms of technological advancements."
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There are references to concentration camps and a repeated motif of vampires being dragged behind trucks.
We believe this was the one used in the stunt where Indiana Jones is being dragged behind a truck".
By the second day it was like being dragged behind a truck; she just took over, she knew where she was going.
In South Africa, where violent crime, vigilante attacks and police brutality are daily fare, a cellphone video of a man being dragged behind a police truck has incited outrage for its brazen and outsize cruelty.
It means that crimes of confused passion must be hate crimes, just like cases that involve someone being dragged behind a truck, as in Officer Caster's banal fantasy of violence, because both have to do with being LGBT.
BERLIN — Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, decided that she had had enough — enough of being dragged behind the euro crisis like a tin can caught in the wheels of a careening car; enough of being forced, in late night crisis meetings, to put German money and financial guarantees on the table; enough of being blamed for reacting too slowly, too cautiously, too stiffly.
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One of the leaders then gets the horse to canter and you're dragged behind, flying on top of the water.
A train of specially adapted containers will be dragged behind with fuel as well as basic living quarters and science labs — a place for sleeping, eating, conducting science experiments and surviving what I know to be and have termed the worst winter in the world.
But in a deviation from this narrative it is Hector, not Troilus, whom the Myrmidons surround in the climatic battle of the play and whose body is dragged behind Achilles' horse.
Some looked as if they'd been dragged behind a car.
He heard the crowd as Farkhunda was dragged behind the car and rushed out, eager to join.
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