Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it from the " 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 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 3 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 4 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 5 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 6 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’ |