Example sentences of "that separate [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 2 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 3 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a rockier feel to Mother Earth that separates us from a band like the Heavies , ’ comments founding member Bunny . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 6 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 7 | The breach that separated me from my past gaped open . |
| 8 | Her appeal to all generations was now something that separated her from almost any other pop star of her generation . |
| 9 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 10 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 11 | He broke through , and was across the clearing that separated him from Yet in a twinkling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus the Central Powers had conquered the neutral region that separated them from their ally in the east , Turkey . |
| 16 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 17 | There was something arresting about him , a masculine potency that leapt the physical chasm that separated them from him with alarming ease . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 20 | I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common . |
| 21 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 22 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Volume one comprises eight chapters which introduce social insects and the factors that separate them from their less cooperative allies . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Just to give you an idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about , the number of generations that separate us from our earliest ancestors is certainly measured in the thousands of millions . |