Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] owe it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charles was told that they owed it to their hosts to give of their professional best , ’ a royal aide said yesterday . |
| 2 | I believe that we owe it to Mr. Davies and to many others to pass it quickly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 6 | I think you will find that it owes it resiliency not to its form of organisation or administrative skills , but to the power of what we call beliefs and the appeal these beliefs have for its people . ’ |