Example sentences of "[verb] apart the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Firemen had to twice use power jacks to prise apart the bars of a roundabout on a council recreation ground on the Roseworth estate at Stockton , to free two children who became trapped . |
2 | The policy paper of March 2 , A Safer Britain for Women , sets forth the core of Labour 's programme to interpose the state between men and women , artificially dividing them and their interests as effectively as , on a larger scale , it plans to prise apart the peoples of the United Kingdom . |
3 | Prise apart the joints with a screwdriver and remove each section in turn . |
4 | Releasing her wrist briefly , he tugged apart the edges of her robe and stared down at her nakedness . |
5 | It is one thing to distinguish a cuckoo 's egg from those of its host , but quite another to tell apart the eggs of two different starlings . |