Sentence examples for sort behind from inspiring English sources
"The world is changing," Glenister reflects, "and it is leaving Mr. Davenant and his sort behind".
GM is the largest industrial corporation ever to go bankrupt in the US and the third-largest bankruptcy of any sort, behind the investment bank Lehman Brothers and the telecommunications firm WorldCom.
In another car magazine, "DBO" mused that the information supplied to him by Octel suggested there might be "... a hidden agenda of some sort behind the push for the introduction of high-octane unleaded fuel in this country" [ 55].
Yobongo handles the room sorting behind the scenes.
They're sort of behind the eight ball here.
"For years, airports have been sort of behind the eight ball in public perception.
"We're in sort of behind the scenes breakdown while this thing comes to a climax, it's just unbelievable," he said, laughing.
It's a fountain of a sort, and behind its soft gurgle stretches Dorado Beach, a $342 million hotel built along three miles of toasty Caribbean sand.
Goldwyn, Mayer… [and they wanted to] stay sort of behind the scenes, because there was developing a real vein of anti-Semitism and misgiving.
("It's an old Communist idea," said a conservative activist who is familiar with Kristol's operations. "You set up a number of front groups that you really run but you're sort of behind the screen").
Thoughts of that sort lie behind "The Poetics of Portraiture: From the 16th to the 21st Century," through Aug. 12 at the William Benton Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
