Example sentences of "and [prep] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did . |
| 3 | It was open and through it came the sound of a cello . |
| 4 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the Mediterranean world had found a common language , and with it went a literature which was uniquely open to all sorts of problems , debates and emotions . |
| 7 | She released her breath , and with it went the tension her body had been locked in . |
| 8 | The composition of the crowd altered and with it went the surveillance and supervision of the young . |
| 9 | Throughout the 1960's the Club continued to increase its membership and with it came the demand for better facilities backed up with plenty of suggestions ! |
| 10 | The programme costs about £50 and with it comes a handbook , that includes etiquette tips like chopping up food into a sensible size before putting into your mouth . |
| 11 | Where before , half the amusement of seeing the New FADS play was seeing whether the five unlikely groovers could carry off their groove thing without sounding like A Certain Ratio after one too many spliffs , now there is a confidence , and with it comes a hint of threat . |
| 12 | The call must come first , and with it comes the vision and the burden . |
| 13 | Summer approaches and with it comes the summer grass court season , your chance to see the best players in the world . |
| 14 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
| 16 | In AD 208 the Emperor Severus took personal charge of a fleet into the Firth of Forth and from it led an expedition across Fife , over the Tay valley , and on into the ever inhospitable north to put an end to these depredations . |
| 17 | He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes . |
| 18 | The Keeper was carrying a portable cage and from it peered an eagle . |
| 19 | You can only see interpersonal behaviour and from it interpret the state of the relationship . |
| 20 | And indeed it was , for over the brow of the little hill a bright-red motor-scooter erupted and upon it swayed the figure of a monumentally built woman , her classic features frozen into a mask of anger and her grey hair flying in the wind so that she had the appearance of a vengeful Medusa . |
| 21 | He had made a will about 21 years earlier and in it left a legacy of £100 to Mrs Violet Peppercorn . |
| 22 | Make a copy of the last graph and on it plot the sales of Mr Gordon Mr Richard 's rival for the same week . |
| 23 | The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store . |
| 24 | It is normally the central point of a home and around it gather the family as we meet for fellowship , fun and general chit-chat . |
| 25 | Late in the eighteenth century a Glasgow industrialist , David Dale , built a cotton mill here in collaboration with Arkwright ( q.v. ) , and around it built a model village for his workers . |