Sentence examples for but he owed from inspiring English sources

It may have been a rough chat, but he owed you that much.

Mr Putin has long been intolerant of alternative centres of power in Russia, but he owed Mr Luzhkov a favour for his backing in 1999.

But he owed more to his father, Randolph, who had been a meteor across the sky in British politics in the eighteen-seventies and eighties.

His great wealth may have been partly inherited, but he owed his position and influence to Octavian, later the emperor Augustus.

But he owed more than 70,000 Pakistani rupees -- $1,160 -- to a local drug baron, he said, and faced ruin and punishment if he could not repay.

But he owed his fame to his conversion of a 40-by-100-foot lot into the exquisite gem called Paley Park, on 53rd Street near Fifth Avenue.

But he owes it to himself to make the effort.

He may look like a reformer, but he owes his job to the army from which he hails.

The man replied, "No, but he owes me a lot of money".

But he owes more than $268 million on loans secured by that stock.

But he owes his greatness partly to the fact that he was an outsider on whom no sensible man would have bet.