Example sentences of "[Wh pn] owned the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case rests on whom owned the knife . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is not known who owned the land around Cosmeston before the Normans came to Wales . |
| 6 | It was Mrs MacDonald who owned the post office . |
| 7 | One of the early residents was a shepherd , who worked for the farmer who owned the farm on the hill behind the building , and the stock grazed on the open fields . |
| 8 | Anyway , one day the farmer who owned the street knocked on the door and told us that my pig father was due to be made into bacon . |
| 9 | One of the main problems here was lack of water for washing the ore , and by the early nineteenth century the Duke of Devonshire , who owned the workings , had built a watercourse and an underground drainage channel to allow deeper shafts to be sunk . |
| 10 | The families that lived rent free on the Moss had a price to pay — infill of the boggy terrain for the Duke of Argyll who owned the whole island . |
| 11 | Our mail gig party consisted of the Highlander who owned the dog , a woman with a very large bundle , a young man just home from his studies at a school in Germany , going to join a family party at Gairloch , and two men I would judge to be shepherds , possibly coming from Muir of Ord after selling their sheep . |
| 12 | Second in command , Flying Officer Denis Stark , had a wife and baby in lodgings in Cambridge , and he it was who owned the BSA . |
| 13 | I formed a real friendship with the transvestite man who owned the house where I lived . |
| 14 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 15 | The Hutton family bought the property from Captain Isaac Mills who had rented it to Mary Elizabeth Hutton , but the Huttons were connected with the custom before this as Isaac Hutton built the hedge on behalf of Dr Herbert who owned the farm before Captain Mills . |
| 16 | The first mayor was Hugh Ripley , a merchant who owned the house at the corner of the market square which is now the tourist information centre . |
| 17 | Behind the drivers lay the real power-brokers , the people who owned the drivers . |
| 18 | On the walls of the lounge were several photographs of the woman who owned the place . |
| 19 | Named after a famous comic superhero , the band were threatened with legal action by Marvel Comics , who owned the copyright . |
| 20 | ‘ Who told you who owned the villa ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He was the chap who owned the place around the turn of the century . |
| 22 | The press barons — in particular Beaverbrook ( who owned the Express ) and Rothermere ( who owned the Mail ) — had amassed their vast power through their industrial holdings and/or their ownership of large circulation , and profitable , newspapers . |
| 23 | The press barons — in particular Beaverbrook ( who owned the Express ) and Rothermere ( who owned the Mail ) — had amassed their vast power through their industrial holdings and/or their ownership of large circulation , and profitable , newspapers . |
| 24 | The reality of such choice depended on whether a reader cared who owned the papers . |
| 25 | John Warner of Hartfield ( land £20 ) was probably the supplier of gunstones as well as a relative of Richard Warner who owned the Parrock works in 1518 . |
| 26 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 27 | At Stratford-upon-Avon , the Bishop of Worcester ( who owned the entire manor ) obtained the grant of a market in 1196 and proceeded to lay out a new town forthwith . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1976 , for example , a dispute between members of the group Gong over who owned the rights to the name resulted in the Virgin offices being ‘ occupied ’ by the group 's followers — a motley congregation of men , women , children and animals , with the appearance of refugees from Gandalf 's Garden . |
| 29 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 30 | He was no longer a farmer , just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more . |