Example sentences of "owned [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority that owned the premises was ‘ privatizing ’ it , i.e. making a quick profit while there were still a fair few years on the lease . |
| 2 | Anyway he owned the place and in most people 's eyes he had every right to chuck me out . |
| 3 | Like he owned the place . |
| 4 | On July 1 that year Maxwell Joseph 's Grand Metropolitan Hotels chain , which also owned the Berni Inns and Chef and Brewer setups , made a surprise offer of £34 million for Truman 's . |
| 5 | Someone said it owned the airline and was the government . |
| 6 | Marcos had arranged the hand-out as a PR gesture he could easily afford , since he largely owned the pharmaceutical companies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 9 | Atari is now Nintendo 's arch-rival , but 10 years ago , it owned the video games market . |
| 10 | The Culpeppers owned the vast and neighbouring estate of Bedgebury and are likely to have bought Pattenden to extend their property . |
| 11 | Over the two hundred years that they owned the house their fortunes dwindled until the house was sold to the Hutchings family in 1736 . |
| 12 | General Motors , which owned the exclusive licence to build the technology in its new cars , recently gave permission to Etak to license other car makers . |
| 13 | ‘ We ’ owned the skies . |
| 14 | She owned the packet of tea bags in the kitchen . |
| 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 | Since this time she has campaigned 30 dogs to the title of Champion , and she and her daughter Julia bred and owned the all-time top winning King Charles , Champion Curtana Morgana . |
| 17 | Zuwaya said , ‘ We killed Pasha Naiz ’ , or , ‘ We owned the desert ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 20 | It was bought by former sandwich bar owner Harry Haddad , who also owned the wine bar next door , Harry 's Bar ( no relation ) . |
| 21 | Salt mining was one of ICI 's original core businesses and made the fortunes of the Mond family which owned the group . |
| 22 | If we ever owned the land , we own it still , for we never sold it . |
| 23 | It is not known who owned the land around Cosmeston before the Normans came to Wales . |
| 24 | The Club also owned the auditors £400 accumulated over a period . |
| 25 | Mr Lawler owned The Haven . |
| 26 | It was Mrs MacDonald who owned the post office . |
| 27 | Just how long this arrangement lasted is not clear but , by the 1680s , clothier Giles Gardner owned the gig and two fulling mills . |
| 28 | Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s . |
| 29 | By 1840 , Chalk 's son owned the mill and leased it to the cloth manufacturing partnership of Samuel Francis and A.M. Flint , who remained there until 1853 . |
| 30 | Shillito Stather , who then owned the mill , carried out a fairly substantial enlargement of the site , creating the Little , North , South and Middle Mills , as well as numerous related buildings . |