Example sentences of "to [pron] [pers pn] owe [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , Freud , to whom we owe this discovery , did not arrive at it by way of evolutionary theory ; on the contrary , he reached his conclusions by direct observation of adults and children and by a study of the psychology of human sexuality . |
| 2 | The ever-present anthropologist to whom we owe this quotation ( Penny Wright ) was told : ‘ Just as native doctors here meet in the witch bush to find new medicines , scientists in your place meet in their witch bush to invent new things . |
| 3 | Must he now grind his pride in the dust and sue for the hand of she to whom he owed that indignity ? |
| 4 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 5 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |