Sentence examples for owns because from inspiring English sources

When he dies unexpectedly, it's Dana who, surprisingly, inherits everything he owns — because, she concludes, he wants her to decide who should get the property.

Mr. Wang favors the lost erhu out of the 10 he owns because the sound is louder and brighter than the others.

BUTTE LA ROSE, La .— You do not really want to ask a Cajun why he lives in a swamp, especially when he is packing everything he owns because the very swamp he loves is about to swallow up his house.

The house is valued at perhaps $10 million, though it is not clear how much Mr. Kerry owns because the house is held in a trust, property records show.

Peter Eppie, executive vice president of SJP Properties, the Parsippany-based developer and owner of Morris Corporate Center there, said his company would not begin any speculative development on property it owns because the market still has "no rhythm".

The company's market share dropped to only 2 percent in the mid-2000s — even including the luxury Audi brand, which it owns — because of quality problems, car designs that made few concessions to U.S. driving habits and a failure to adapt to the changing tastes of American consumers.

If not, you can take everything I own because I'm that confident.

It doesn't need to be owned because it's everywhere.

The most irksome levy is payable on the land that peasants till, which they are not allowed to own, because the government owns all the land.

The studios were compelled to sell off the theatres they had owned, because that had been judged an unfair monopoly.

Middle and better-off farmers cropped more land than they owned because they hired or borrowed crop land.