Example sentences of "owners [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 2 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 3 | ‘ Every general manager in the company wanted the job but it was offered to me because I had the greatest European experience , so when the owners sold it , it seemed beyond belief . |
| 4 | Locals claim the increase is too much , but the bridge owners insist it 's good value . |
| 5 | Some people complained when the owners painted it white , but it was proved from an old book that Normans often painted their castles . ’ |
| 6 | Today , the main mill building is still in a good state of repair , although the present owners found it necessary to demolish the engine house . |
| 7 | This is not done by the owners challenging them , or punishing them physically , but simply by making them earn all their privileges . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |
| 9 | Indeed , the way in which they could disappear beyond the ability of governments and even their owners to find them is eliciting a long , hard look at Europe 's toxic waste rules . |
| 10 | Where are the missing works illustrated here and do their owners know they are fake ? |
| 11 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 12 | Some home managers or owners say they do n't want to bother residents with this sort of thing . |
| 13 | The owners say they need more cash for essential repairs . |
| 14 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 15 | A group of mobile cafe owners say they 'll fight moves to ban their vehicles from the roadside on a busy dual carriageway . |
| 16 | The cafe owners say they 've never caused an accident . |
| 17 | A group of mobile cafe owners say they 'll fight moves to ban their vehicles from the roadside on a busy dual carriageway . |
| 18 | Its owners say they 'd be pleased to allow a memorial on the site . |
| 19 | The course owners say they could compromise . |
| 20 | The owners say they are delighted with their horse … thrilled … |
| 21 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 22 | The court was told of a catalogue of filthy practises in the kitchen , but one of the owners says he 's been harshly treated |
| 23 | Honda immediately withdrew the two affected models — the HR-EL 171 and 172 and has contacted all its 4,500 owners warning them not to use the machine until a solution is found . |
| 24 | Often capable-looking owners assured her that they were good at controlling their pets , but at the first sign of resistance they released their hold and the animal then became nervous and upset . |
| 25 | The owners owe her fifteen pounds . |
| 26 | The owners showed me the hotel rooms , which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets . |
| 27 | The property has been stolen from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , perhaps Oxfordshire and the police want to trace the owners to help them build a pattern linking the burglaries . |
| 28 | The house , she thought , was like a vacuum , waiting for the personalities of its new owners to fill it . |
| 29 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
| 30 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |