Example sentences of "owe him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 2 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 3 | Owing him a grudge for this , Riderhood tries to fix the blame for the Harmon murder on Hexam , hoping to claim the reward money offered by Mr Boffin ; he is foiled , however , by Hexam 's death . |
| 4 | I owe him a favour , so I could n't say no . |
| 5 | You owe him an apology for misjudging him and suspecting his motives at every turn . |
| 6 | Does that mean you owe him an essay or something ? |
| 7 | I still owe him the money . |
| 8 | He said now he 's telling everybody he said that er I ai n't ever paid him and I still owe him the money . |
| 9 | Anyway , Dadda owed him a day off for working the Spring Holiday Monday to get those Chippendale chair seats done . |
| 10 | At the battle , Jack is saved by Younger Bear ( Carl Bellini ) , who owed him a life from childhood . |
| 11 | He had , now , friends in many places , or people who owed him a favour . |
| 12 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
| 13 | He asked a policeman who owed him a favour that he wanted no-one to know about . |
| 14 | It followed therefore that at the time of the accident the brewery still owed him a duty of care under s. 2 OLA 1957 . |
| 15 | As to Alain Lemarchand , she owed him no duty at all and certainly no favours . |
| 16 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 17 | The court held that the accused represented that the bank owed him the money and that he was entitled to withdraw it . |
| 18 | In return his subjects owed him the duty of honouring that peace . |
| 19 | He was right , of course ; she did owe him the courtesy of an apology , even though he would very likely throw it back in her face . |
| 20 | Did she really owe him an apology ? |
| 21 | Unsure of whether she does owe him an explanation , of how much of her perspective she can get across in a conversation , and unwilling to let go of the London Kate who has broken through to the surface , she is ashamed of her suspicions of his reasons for asking her back to his place and agrees . |