Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open .
2 Oh , I was writing it from the board actually .
3 Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from .
4 At the beginning of September , 1715 , the mission left St. Petersburg on an incredible journey that was to take it from the shore of the Baltic Sea in the west , almost to the Pacific Ocean in the east , crossing the full width of European Russia , much of Siberia , Mongolia 's Gobi Desert and deep into China .
5 She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’
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