Example sentences of "separate [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 2 | Darkened windows separated them from the chauffeur . |
| 3 | Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran . |
| 4 | A long thin garden of lawn and ornamental cypresses , enclosed by shrubs and then by iron railings , separated it from the boulevard between the cemetery and the church . |
| 5 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 6 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 7 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 8 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 12 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 13 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 14 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 15 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 16 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 17 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 18 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 19 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 20 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 21 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 22 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 23 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 24 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 25 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 26 | Separate them from the parent plant , transferring the new plants to growbags in early September , half a dozen plants to a bag . |
| 27 | No roads , just a pool , separate it from the sea making it ideal for families . |
| 28 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 29 | This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be . |
| 30 | When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding , nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son , our Lord . |