Example sentences of "separate [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 4 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 5 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 6 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 7 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 8 | The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " . |
| 9 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |