Example sentences of "[Wh pn] owned " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exclusive of absent freeholders there were twenty-six tenants at Slapton in 1548 , who are matched by thirty resident laymen in 1522 , four of whom owned no property of any description . |
| 2 | The case rests on whom owned the knife . |
| 3 | For someone whose life has been lived in search of the word , who perceived that ‘ a scar is what happens when the word is made flesh , ’ who owned that his education began on hearing of the Holocaust , it is not a convincing comment . |
| 4 | Moreover , Dorothy 's Englishness was centuries old : among her cousins was one Charles Talbot — ‘ one of the Shakespear names ’ , she said — who owned a medieval abbey , ‘ and once Ezra and I crawled over the roof in a turret to see a copy of the Magna Charta , kept there in a glass case ’ . |
| 5 | The body of a man shot , trussed and dumped in a reservoir near Halifax , West Yorkshire , has been identified as that of Laurence Conrad Winstanley , 24 , who owned a motor repair business in Oldham , Greater Manchester . |
| 6 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 7 | After the children grew up , the stories remained in a drawer until three years ago when Mr Driscoll , who owned a mail order business , decided to publish them . |
| 8 | He placed the empty mess-tins on the floor , lit a cigarette , and , leaning back against the wall , remarked ‘ i do n't think the Frenchman who owned the rabbit would object . |
| 9 | Of this latter group , 39 per cent were classified in manual occupations , compared to 33 per cent for shareowners as a whole and 28 per cent of those who owned non-privatisation shares . |
| 10 | The group got underway as a holiday company when Mr De Haan senior , who owned a Folkstone hotel , began arranging holidays for pensioners in the ‘ off season ’ . |
| 11 | It subsequently passed , in 1802 , through fairly obscure cousinly connections to Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland , a phenomenally rich gentleman who owned tracts of Devon and Somerset and built the model village of Selworthy . |
| 12 | Iford Manor was bought in 1773 by the Gaisford family , who owned it until 1853 . |
| 13 | His parents , Abraham and Beattie , were ordinary , respectable , middle-class Jews who owned an electrical-goods store in the town ; his grandfather , who left Russia in the 1920s , had been a peddler and a shoemaker . |
| 14 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 15 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 16 | The journalist Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd , continuing his indefatigable quest for the ancien régime , identified a clutch of MPs who owned country houses , including Paul Channon and Mark Lennox-Boyd of the Guinness dynasty ( the story goes that when Channon was selected for his seat in Southend , which had been represented by the family since 1912 , local advertising hoardings were proclaiming ‘ Have Another Guinness ! ’ ) . |
| 17 | Most landowners were Zuwaya or their assignees : people who were not Zuwaya and who owned land were ( Zuwaya said ) either clients or descendants of Zuwaya slaves , or affines incorporated into the Zuwaya genealogy . |
| 18 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The Forest rights of the Crown should be sold to the landowners who owned the soil , or exchanged for an apportionment of land for enclosure and economic development . |
| 20 | Mrs Boesky , who was left a fortune by her father Ben Silverstein , who owned a string of properties including Hollywood 's Beverly Hills Hotel , has also been seeking the repossession of her husband 's property in Honolulu . |
| 21 | It is not known who owned the land around Cosmeston before the Normans came to Wales . |
| 22 | His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . |
| 23 | Firstly , there were the rich , who owned farms and employed labour in both agriculture and the home and who made up 20 per cent of the population . |
| 24 | Mid-winter he carved figures in wood and whalebone , the latter called scrimshaw , which Mr Lambie , who owned Lambie 's Shop & Gift Emporium , sold for him , taking a percentage profit from every item bought . |
| 25 | It was Mrs MacDonald who owned the post office . |
| 26 | During the first half of the 16th century , the mill passed through a number of hands before being sold by John Sandford to the Clutterbuck family , who owned and worked it until fairly late in the 18th century . |
| 27 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 28 | There are Arabs who owned land and can prove it without any doubt . |
| 29 | ‘ If you know the man who owned this house , you had better come inside , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Except for these older men who owned or tenanted land , however , only two were recalled as independently retired , and both were middle-class businessmen . |