Example sentences of "it belonged to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Yeats first laid eyes on Maud Gonne , in 1889 , ‘ the trembling of my life began ’ , he said , ‘ I had never thought to see in a living creature so great beauty … it belonged to famous pictures , to poetry , to some legendary past . ’ |
| 2 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 3 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 4 | Next door , an old woman in her seventies read aloud to her ninety-two-year-old mother , as she had read aloud of an evening for decades ; their house had not been renovated , it belonged to another age . |
| 5 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |