Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun] and [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled .
2 The contents of the Church of Scotland ceremony and where it is to be held is entirely at the discretion of the minister .
3 He made a very sound case that only the Pathfinders should receive the benefit of H.S developments and that it was wrong for the Main Force to have the device .
4 We played our practice round with Jack Nicklaus and after it Jack shook his head and said , ‘ I 've never seen a guy play so good .
5 Oliver insisted she had been followed from Fleet Street and that it was likely the police had tapped her office telephone .
6 Is it possible that a body was put in the basin early on Saturday morning and that it remained there until the next high tide without being seen ? ’
7 Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ .
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