Sentence examples for erstwhile owner from inspiring English sources

Each partner contributed whatever he could, being helped by generous sum from Prince Felix Youssoupoff, erstwhile owner of two Rembrandts.

A little more than one month later, the erstwhile owner of that bogus persona registered @NotBillWalton, yet another faux Twitter identity.

In some cases the authorities could buy it outright and let it back to its erstwhile owner, turning it into de facto social housing.The modest funding for this scheme means that it will not be revolutionary.

I like the fact that Nick can visit Badger at my folks' house, but I cry inside when the cat backs away from the stranger on wheels, and will only approach his erstwhile owner with coercion and when offered slices of ham.

He sold the company for £100,000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

Mitchel insisted that the informers be protected rather than returned to their erstwhile owners, writing, "The negroes are our only friends, and in two instances I owe my own safety to their faithfulness".

There's also the seemingly small matter of convincing its erstwhile owners British American Tobacco (BAT) to support his candidature.

And, finally, for Trestman, he has a chance to coach in the Super Bowl, six years after the erstwhile 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo fired him, not with a phone call but with an announcement on live television.

A close friend, writer, painter, and erstwhile night-club owner Barnaby Conrad, did a life-size portrait of Caen that shows him seated, legs crossed, writing in a small notebook.

In the 20-odd years since their chaotic rise and messy demise, a number of legends have sprung up in the Sex Pistols' wake, among them that they were never a rock band at all but rather an impish piece of Conceptual Art masterminded by their manager, the erstwhile London boutique owner Malcolm McLaren.

DINING ROOM [Lech, 6, under the table, pretends to be dead, in a coffin raised over the heads of hysterical mourners.] [Here sits Robert Smith, the cat, named by its owner, now dead, erstwhile Cure fan and neighbor to Jane and Dan.