Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] 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 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 .
5 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 .
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