Example sentences of "[Wh pn] owned [art] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Could it have had any connection with the man next door , who owned a motorcycle with the trademark ‘ Indian ’ ? |
| 11 | Its name came from Jordan De Cave who owned a large amount of land here many years ago . |
| 12 | Then , when I was eleven , he had a friend who owned a music store and he talked him into letting me work Saturdays . |
| 13 | ‘ In Gérouville , near Arlon , there lived a man who owned a magnificent parrot . |
| 14 | Near Fontanellato they had a cousin who owned a caseificio and had promised to give them some butter and cheese . |
| 15 | His father died while he was still young and he was brought up by his mother and paternal grandfather , who owned a tailor 's shop in Moor Street , Birmingham . |
| 16 | 1625 ) , shipwright , who owned a dockyard at Wapping , and his wife Mary . |
| 17 | John entered the family printing business and learned the art of printing from his father , who owned a prosperous printing firm in the New Market in Liverpool . |
| 18 | In 1777 he married Elizabeth Parker ( died 1842 ) , the daughter of a business associate , a watchmaker who owned a toy shop in Seel Street , and the niece of Mr Fazackerley , silversmith of Pool Lane . |
| 19 | ( 1 ) There once was an old farmer ( 2 ) who owned a very stubborn donkey . |
| 20 | The villagers who owned a cow made arrangements with those that did not . |
| 21 | " Mr Big " of this particular syndicate turned out to be a wealthy bookmaker who owned a Newmarket racing stable . |
| 22 | One question concerned Mr Jones who owned a factory employing 100 people . |
| 23 | A man who owned a needle made of octiron would never lose his way , since it always pointed to the Hub of the discworld , being acutely sensitive to the disc 's magical field , it would also miraculously dam his socks . |
| 24 | On impulse Sally-Anne went to the kitchen and picked up a jam jar which she had earlier filled with sweet peas brought by a grateful patient who owned a little garden . |
| 25 | A Mr Ross from Leominster , who owned a shoe shop in Bishop 's Castle , was a keen cine photographer and when he came to Bishop 's Castle ( by train ) he was in the habit of taking film of the railway , but the family moved away to the South Coast , after selling the business , and to date we have not been able to trace the family or film . |
| 26 | A compromise formula was apparently agreed , which , among other things , would allow the participation of a West Bank resident who owned a second home in East Jerusalem . |
| 27 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 28 | The police had traced the dinghy to Londoners who owned a weekend cottage a few miles away up the Welsh coast . |
| 29 | Mr Lear was the son of an ironmonger who owned a business in Horsemarket , Darlington , which had been in the family for generations . |
| 30 | Do you mean somebody who owned a er some kind of vehicle , tradesmen some of the tradesmen did but not many that I can remember , no I do n't think there was too many of them . |