Example sentences of "we owe [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We owe it to the public that our games should be controlled with all the exactness that is possible . ’ |
| 2 | We owe it to the city to maintain |
| 3 | ‘ We owe it to the Cowdray ground and to Lord Cowdray to walk off . ’ |
| 4 | We owe it to the fans who have made all this possible . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At the very least we owe it to the families of the dead and the wives and children of the soldiers . |
| 6 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 7 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
| 8 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |