Example sentences of "separate [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 2 | The poor see the lumpy , soapy tourists and they harbour thoughts of separating them from their possessions . |
| 3 | Many spouses blame this conflict on the organization , and this is reinforced by their partners who similarly blame the organization For separating them from their families . |
| 4 | Repealers were at pains to stress the immense cultural distance which separated them from their opponents ; they positioned themselves as wholly outside the political and military elite which upheld the acts . |
| 5 | Thus the Central Powers had conquered the neutral region that separated them from their ally in the east , Turkey . |
| 6 | The breach that separated me from my past gaped open . |
| 7 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 8 | The street was wider there and Owen 's men found it easy to slip round the Sheikh separating him from his followers and surrounding him . |
| 9 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 10 | The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends . |
| 11 | Then followed a resolution naming the London committee ‘ The Veterinary College , London ’ , and separating it from its parent , the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 12 | We can define a system as an organised unitary whole composed of interdependent parts or sub-systems and with boundaries separating it from its environment and other systems . |
| 13 | Rufus seized the kingdom in 1088 , separating it from his brother Robert , who remained as Duke of Normandy . |
| 14 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 15 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 16 | I 'd never endanger that , I 'd never try and separate him from his mother . ’ |
| 17 | We did not separate her from her children , but the Council can not allow our infant King to wander where he will . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes it has to be done but , even then , two things separate us from our attackers . |
| 19 | The waxworks were arranged in groups beyond a rope , which was supposed to separate them from their admirers . |
| 20 | Cut around the tile to be removed to separate it from its neighbours |
| 21 | This not only separates him from his brothers but also from God and is disastrous . |