Example sentences of "[noun] separating [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 2 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 3 | The US sample scores lowest for clarity of problem understanding and production involvement in design , probably representing the standing of the production function in the USA in this industry and the communication gap separating it from R&D , another cultural factor . |
| 4 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 7 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 8 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 9 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 10 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 11 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 12 | It was enough to render the distance separating them as nothing . |
| 13 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 14 | These with some stalls intervening , we saw reached to the furthermost end of the main building , a wall separating them from the Museum and also from College Street . |
| 15 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 16 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 19 | A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days . |
| 20 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 21 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But still , it was on the fringe of The Courts , with only the railway line separating it from Salford . |
| 24 | City are thus able to check the Premier table to find they have eight teams below them with a gap of nine points separating them from the relegation zone . |
| 25 | Only an alarming collapse by four of the clubs above Quakers can save them from an instant return to the Fourth Division , with nine points separating them from the fifth bottom club . |
| 26 | Watching Bowe at work in a giant tent in the back lot of the Mirage Hotel , pawing at sparring partners with less conviction than the white tigers in the hotel lobby paw at the glass separating them from gamblers , is to share the doubts . |
| 27 | Claudia drove the ten miles separating them at reckless speed . |
| 28 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |