Example sentences of "who owned [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even offered advice to Greenwich Hospital who owned much of the land nearby on how to manage it . |
| 2 | Some claimed to be Don Antonio Beatillo himself , reincarnate ; others , more crafty , urged the claims of babies discovered , they said , in the local limestone caves , foundlings dropped from the sky , with tokens proving their selfsame identity with the magnate , recently deceased , much lamented ( RIP ) who owned all that land down in the valley of the Dragon Torrent . |
| 3 | She had been , before her second marriage a few years ago to Mr Alderley , Baroness to Lord Switham , who owned all the land round about , with the exception of Merchiston Lodge and other hunting boxes in the vicinity belonging to various members of the haut ton . |
| 4 | An amusing instance of this is related by John Aubrey concerning an Oxford don , Thomas Allen ( 1542–1632 ) , who owned many mathematical and other scientific instruments . |
| 5 | People who owned such land at the time that pressure for development came upon it — whether industrial or residential ; indeed obviously , the two went together — were faced with two choices . |
| 6 | And Christie Goldsborough , who owned those pawnshops and those taverns could find out if he so wished just where her satin had gone . |
| 7 | In 1560 it was the home of Michael Benson , wool clothier , one of three brothers , who owned most of the freeholds between Rydal and Clappersgate . |
| 8 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 9 | ‘ If you know the man who owned this house , you had better come inside , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I drove almost two hundred miles down from Lisboa in order to visit whoever it was who owned this house . ’ |
| 11 | Today was the start of her contract , which she had signed back home with the agent of the Monte Samana Company who owned this entire complex . |
| 12 | Yeah the company who owned this |
| 13 | Beyond the hedge of red-leaved crotons that marked the uphill boundary of Nana 's yard stood a dilapidated shack that was unoccupied , the property of a woman in one of the lower villages who owned several plots in the valley . |
| 14 | I want to know who trained Quest for Fame and Sanglemore , he was a first season trainer , who rode both of them to victory in the respective Derbys and who owned both of them . |