Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.

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1 Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison .
2 The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside .
3 Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind .
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 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 .
6 He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones .
7 Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them .
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 They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish .
10 Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese .
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