Example sentences of "separated [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 5 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 8 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 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 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 14 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 15 | Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom . |
| 16 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 17 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 18 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 19 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |