Example sentences of "[adv] belonged to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 2 | This obviously belonged to Brian Summers , the chairman of World Wide Insurance . |
| 3 | ‘ It obviously belonged to your family , and I 'd like to return it . ’ |
| 4 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 5 | He had imposed heavy and illegal exactions upon the forest dwellers , prevented the men of the royal demesnes from having their customary rights of housebote and haybote , and taken for himself the dues for escapes of cattle and other animals in the forest , which rightly belonged to the king . |
| 6 | The house was no longer papa 's property , although she still held the key ; it rightly belonged to Craig , just as Summer Lodge did . |
| 7 | Five people were assassinated at Acerra , near Naples , on May 1 by a group of men who apparently belonged to the Camorra , the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia . |
| 8 | He had also taken the profits of minor pleas of the vert , and ‘ pleas of taking hares , foxes , rabbits and cats , and of having dogs and greyhounds in the forest ’ , which pleas rightfully belonged to the king . |
| 9 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |
| 10 | These and other indications — the marriage of his daughter Eleanor to Alfonso VIII of Castile , a projected campaign in the Auvergne , a claim that the archbishopric of Bourges rightfully belonged to the duchy of Aquitaine — show that the southern parts of his dominions continued to be very much in his mind in these months . |
| 11 | When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them . |
| 12 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
| 13 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 14 | The lawyer reminded Nathan and Georgia that the house on Mahogany Drive already belonged to them since , as they doubtless knew , their mother had died intestate and , when their mother 's mother died some years later , the house , deemed to be two-thirds of her estate , became legally theirs . |
| 15 | When I first met him Michael already belonged to the Unification Church and I do as well now , so we are aware of the threat from Communism in all its forms . |
| 16 | The house already belonged to the police , a fact which was reinforced when a second car arrived . |
| 17 | No question of compensation arose since the development rights already belonged to the state , but the first owner had these given back to him without payment . |
| 18 | But the building no longer belonged to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , and the apparatchiks , once the backbone of the party state , were contemplating the possibility of unemployment for the first time in their lives . |
| 19 | By virtue of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , s.18 , at the moment of driving off the petrol no longer belonged to the garage . |
| 20 | The family wanted a three inch carving of the bear on the headstone , to symbolise the only thing that ever belonged to tragic Sophie , but the church has said no . |
| 21 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 22 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
| 23 | The incomes of these basic organizations thereafter belonged to the area in which they were located and were lost to the parent organization . |
| 24 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 25 | It once belonged to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is extraordinarily large for a man so small . |
| 26 | Bewey , Joan 's first dog , once belonged to an old lady who cosseted her , endlessly stroking her head and ears . |
| 27 | Facing the Černín Palace , look to your right across to the small buildings ( 1602 ) that once belonged to the Capuchins . |
| 28 | Johnny Marr simply clutched his twelve-string Rickenbacker ( Which once belonged to one of his heroes , Roger McGuinn from The Byrds ) and concentrated on the meagre task of fulfilling the promise held by one of the most eagerly awaited début albums in history . |
| 29 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 30 | On the other side of the quay is the Beatles Boat Restaurant , a large boat which once belonged to the Beatles pop group which arrived in Madeira in a very sorry state but has now been renovated and , along with many small boats , forms an interesting open-air restaurant complex . |