Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] belong to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 2 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 3 | The last mill these waters powered was Awre Corn Mill , an old site in use at least since the time of the Domesday Survey , having reputedly belonged to Edward the Confessor . |
| 4 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 5 | did not belong to Stratford , but to the cooperative movement as a whole … |
| 6 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 7 | I was sure it did not belong to Conchis or old Maria . |
| 8 | Maggie might no longer belong , to anything or anyone , if she did not belong to Fenna . |
| 9 | Of course , anthropologists know that they themselves do not belong to cultures of this kind ; but rather to ones which present a jumble of themes , in which any impression of overall coherence is produced kaleidoscopically — that is to say , patterned arbitrarily with mirrors . |
| 10 | of CalMac staff who do not belong to STG schemes will be unaffected by the Bill . |
| 11 | The number of TV sets adapted for Prestel has crept up to 24 000 , and only 4000 of those do not belong to businesses . |
| 12 | do not belong to TOPS , by definition 50 per cent . |
| 13 | The voice did n't belong to Rex Mundi . |
| 14 | They were highly competitive , did n't belong to trade unions and lacked any notion of worker solidarity . |
| 15 | Many hotel workers do n't belong to trade unions . |
| 16 | The first morning of the match did actually belong to England , West Indies ' lunchtime score being 77 for 4 ; but then Botham bowled poorly , and Greenidge and Dujon accepted this beneficence grate fully . |
| 17 | ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris . |
| 18 | If a is not a member of A we write unc and say " a does not belong to A " . |
| 19 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 20 | In its relentless quest to buy up every open operating system technology that does not belong to Microsoft Corp , Novell Inc is reportedly considering buying what is left of NeXT Inc if it can come to terms with founder and controlling shareholder Steve Jobs . |
| 21 | Transome Court in Felix Holt ( 1866 ) does not belong to Harold Transome , but to the tramp , Tommy Trounsem , who dies in a ditch . |
| 22 | That sort of failure does not belong to Leonard Cohen , he is by nature an industrious and self-conscious worker , if restless ; and so he stayed . |
| 23 | The whole pretence about his future plans does not belong to relations between brothers , especially brothers who have just wept on each other 's shoulders , and who have shown each other such surprising willingness for reunion . |
| 24 | ‘ I deduce the corpse we have just seen does not belong to James IV . |
| 25 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 26 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 27 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |
| 28 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 29 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 30 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |