Sentence examples for earlier owner from inspiring English sources

Apparently, an earlier owner had removed one of the horses to give to his daughter before selling the carousel.

You may find, though, that the garage itself has been duped by an earlier owner who had the car clocked.

Like others, the hemlock was planted by an earlier owner, John Gardner, whose Chinese toon tree (Cedrela sinensis) lured botanists from the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard to inspect it in 1926.

An earlier owner was Margarete Mauthner, another Jewish refugee; in 2003, four of Ms. Mauthner's great-grandchildren wrote Ms. Taylor asserting that while the painting had not been confiscated by the Nazis, Ms. Mauthner had disposed of it under duress and they were entitled to its return under laws to deal with Holocaust-era restitution claims.

There had been no functional reason for the recessed ceiling, aside, perhaps, from an earlier owner's desire to cut costs when putting in new walls.

One of the score's earlier owners was the 19th-century French singer and composer Pauline Viardot.

Earlier owners had unsuccessfully tried to put a racetrack and an airport on the marshy land, which many viewed as too difficult and costly to develop.

But the company emphasizes that mining rights, usually sold by earlier owners at the turn of the century, always stipulated the owner's obligation to acknowledge the company's undermining rights.

Augustus Van Wickle, a Pennsylvania coal baron, bought the property in the 1890's, reaping the horticultural benefits of earlier owners who had planted specimen trees, a tradition carried on by Augustus's wife, Bessie, who hired the landscape architect John DeWolf to expand the gardens in an informal, naturalistic style.

We've raised more than a billion dollars in equity and debt capital over the years, largely through a couple of recaps, with private equity owners taking out earlier owners.

Unlike earlier owners of Mount Weld, who planned to fully process the ore to metals, Lynas will export a semiprocessed material to China, where final extraction of the metallic elements will take place with cheaper labor and other overhead.