Example sentences of "[noun sg] that separated [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood .
2 They must have constantly wondered whether they would ever return to the world outside the moat that separated them from it , a moat that also served as a sewer .
3 They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions .
4 He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones .
5 Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them .
6 Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open .
7 He broke through , and was across the clearing that separated him from Yet in a twinkling .
8 They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea .
9 Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them .
10 I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common .
11 The breach that separated me from my past gaped open .
12 There was something arresting about him , a masculine potency that leapt the physical chasm that separated them from him with alarming ease .
13 Thus the Central Powers had conquered the neutral region that separated them from their ally in the east , Turkey .
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