Object

• duty: The insurer owes a duty of good faith to the insured.

• money: I've seen peoples houses get gasoline bombed cos they owe drug dealers money.

• palfrey: Nova Oblata: Peter de Malo Lacu and Isabella his wife owed one palfrey.

Preposition: on

• mortgage: That includes £ 15,000 he still owes on a mortgage after losing the former council house he was buying before his illness.

Modifying Another Word

• mainly: Emissions increased by about 1.5 per cent between 2003 and 2004, mainly owing to increases in industrial and transport sector emissions.

• much: At the recent AGM I stressed my firm view that the success of the club owes much to its unity.

• perhaps: Tom Clothier I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Used with why or when

• who: Patronage politics are dominated by who knows who, who owes who, and how much they owe.

Modifying Another Word

• still: However, some people are still owed quite a lot of money by the Club.

Preposition: in

• meantime: Making an appeal does not allow you to withhold Council Tax owed in the meantime.

Preposition: by

• defendant: That is the LSC would pay the costs incurred under the representation order less the amount paid or owed by the defendant.