Example sentences of "separate [pron] [prep] the " 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 | What separates them from the dwindling ranks of mediocre C86-type bands are their songs : sparkling things that are packed full of love-drenched sentiments , mood-lifting hooklines and wonderful tunes . |
| 3 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 4 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 5 | Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran . |
| 6 | Darkened windows separated them from the chauffeur . |
| 7 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 8 | The fields were divided into strips of round-backed ridges , separated one from the other by ploughed furrows which acted as land drains . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 14 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 15 | Aleksandrova rather confusingly calls the northern and southern belts arctic tundra and subarctic tundra , separating them by the 6°C July isotherm . |
| 16 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 17 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 22 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 25 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 26 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |