Example sentences of "separating [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest .
2 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 .
3 One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver .
4 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 .
5 Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe .
6 Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean .
7 The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again .
8 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 .
9 Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend .
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