1.   A portrait of the Virgin Mary looms behind him like a heavenly guardian.

2.   Her eyes loomed behind her bifocals.

3.   And a new number, updating the number of games played, was unfurled as part of a banner decorating the warehouse wall that looms behind Camden Yards.

4.   Behind us loomed the low volcanic crater, Eldborg, that had spawned this wasteland.

5.   Behind him looms his first campaign poster, just unveiled.

6.   Beneath skies as gray as the warships looming behind him, President Clinton paid tribute Wednesday to the crew of the destroyer Cole, the living and the dead.

7.   A larger-than-life likeness of the Hindu god Krishna loomed behind him.

8.   All I saw was a big sand bar looming behind me.

9.   But looming behind them was an Amtrak train, one that moved stealthily under electric power.