Example sentences of "and [prep] it [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their skins were the colour of walnut husks , and under it muscles bulged like sacks of melons . |
| 2 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 3 | This was the first systematic survey of stone circles ever to be undertaken and in it Stukeley attempted to prove that the Druids , whom he believed built the circles , were the forefathers of Christianity . |
| 4 | It was called " Reunion by Destruction " and in it Eliot set out his reasons for opposing the idea of uniting the Anglican , Presbyterian , Congregationalist and Methodist churches . |
| 5 | The church tower loomed up from its promontory and beside it Theodora saw the solid block of the seventeenth-century Rectory . |
| 6 | But this programme was ruined by the Chernobyl disaster ; and without it perestroika had no chance of success . |
| 7 | It is a low rising hill above the waters of a loch and on it centre powers that only eagles of peace and truth can fully feel |