Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 2 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 3 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 4 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 5 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |