Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] separate [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood .
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 He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones .
4 Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life .
8 The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation .
9 The ownership of productive property defines this class and separates it from the rest of society .
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