Example sentences of "we owe [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is every reason to remember George Bush 's achievements and the debt of gratitude we owe him for his leadership . |
| 2 | WE OWE it above all to the example of John Harle , himself still young , that the saxophone is fast shedding its jazz/pop image . |
| 3 | But , speaking at the same conference , Ed Wallis , chief executive of PowerGen , the company which will inherit a third of the Central Electricity Generating Board 's stations , warned : ‘ We plan to burn a wider range of fuels from a wider range of sources — and we owe it to our customers to get the best possible deal . ’ |
| 4 | We owe it to gastronomy to keep them alive . |
| 5 | I owe it to Alison , we owe it to each other , to live this openly and simply . |
| 6 | ‘ We owe it to the public that our games should be controlled with all the exactness that is possible . ’ |
| 7 | We owe it to the city to maintain |
| 8 | ‘ … I think we owe it to that pathetic creature in there . ’ |
| 9 | we owe it to our forebears , to ourselves , to our children , and to God who created us , to keep it so . ' |
| 10 | ‘ We owe it to the Cowdray ground and to Lord Cowdray to walk off . ’ |
| 11 | We owe it to the fans who have made all this possible . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At the very least we owe it to the families of the dead and the wives and children of the soldiers . |
| 13 | We owe it to clarity to disentangle the varieties of suffering possible in a given situation . |
| 14 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 15 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's pricey , of course , but I said to Pauline — come on , we owe it to ourselves . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We owe it to ourselves ’ . |
| 18 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 19 | We owe it to our members , if nothing else , to find the answer . |
| 20 | We owe it to them to ensure that their money is not squandered . |
| 21 | I believe that we owe it to Mr. Davies and to many others to pass it quickly . |
| 22 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 23 | We owe it to them never to surrender this country to those whose motive for murder is your place of work . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's too much to lose now and we owe it to our fans to do well . |
| 25 | I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed |
| 26 | Well I do n't think we owe it to them we just delivered them a nice big salary and they 've got more than enough work to do . |
| 27 | We owe it to our supporters who have been magnificent all along the line , ’ says McGilligan . |
| 28 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
| 29 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |