Sentence examples for because a previous owner from inspiring English sources

Mr. Peltz, who bought the property in 1986, said he had the right to use the helicopter because a previous owner of the property, DeWitt Wallace, the founder of Reader's Digest, had flown small planes from an airstrip on the grounds in the 1930's.

White said that the decision to close the site – principally a message board which he has run for six years and which he inherited from a previous owner – was because it had become "unwieldy" and was "impossible to moderate" after the Jimmy Savile story when it started to attract 100,000 hits per day.

Semente's owner, Aline Winckler Brufato, told me she had reopened the club in 2004, after a previous owner had shut it down, because "I love music and I wanted to work in culture".

In the 1980s, a previous owner added a second floor.

Second-hand is something which has had a previous owner.

A previous owner was Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Purchase a cockatiel from a previous owner.

"I wanted a pool table, because the previous owner had a pool table in the living room and I thought, 'What a great idea,' but we didn't want it in the living room," he said.

Frida Katlo arrived in a duffel bag, because her previous owner didn't have a cat carrier.

Douglas T. Linde, the president of Boston Properties, said the low yield was temporary because the previous owner agreed to a long period of free rent for a new tenant, Bain Capital, which is leasing 220,000 square feet.

The large rectangular apartment — about 1,300 square feet — takes up the entire second floor of an old three-story building, and because the previous owner had removed most of the interior walls, it had an open feel.