Example sentences of "separate [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
2 | He closed the two feet separating them in one angry stride and caught her white face between his hands , his gaze savage , ‘ You think hearing you say you love me embarrasses me ? ’ |
3 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
4 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
5 | Alternatively , the future may bring chemicals that could protect us from any gas , liquid or radiation , not to mention environments in which future generations may live that will separate them from any hazardous source . |
6 | Feathered legs separate it from all other same-sized birds of prey , except smaller eagles . |
7 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |