Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood .
5 Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind .
6 But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before .
7 It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle .
8 This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action .
9 If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness .
10 Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground .
11 ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details .
12 He had undermined all her carefully built-up controls , got under her skin in the most insidious way possible , and turned her from a cool little lady into a screaming fishwife .
13 She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit .
14 Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination .
15 He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally .
16 He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves .
17 He took a taper and lit it from the large wax candle burning in front of the statue of the Madonna .
18 Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses .
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