Sentence examples for a owes from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a owes" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express a debt or obligation, but it requires additional context or modification to be grammatically correct.
Example: "John owes me a favor."
Alternatives: "a is indebted" or "a has a debt".

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Hare offers a simple scenario (1963: 90 1): suppose that A owes money to B, who owes money to C, and that the law allows creditors to exact their debts by putting their debtors into prison.

So we may think that A owes B more than $5/hour … even if they agree on that wage.

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For example, say a company owes a small business $5,000.

But as it turns out, "A K A" owes less to Highsmith than to Mr. Roy's own life.

A man owes three lives".

A septuagenarian owes his audience nothing more.

He especially owes a lot to Castillo-Chavez.

Pfizer owes a lot to Roger Newton Roger Newton.

The AKP owes a lot to him.

Nobody owes a political party their vote.

Mr. Broun owes an apology to history.

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