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Lawrence Godfrey took a good, long look at a television shot of a nearby crowd, hustled out and found his man, collected the $10 that had been owing him for ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two women to whose unvarying kindness all my comfort had been owing, were made happy with satin-stripe, cassis, and the inevitable nicotiana.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But so it was, and it had been owing to these strange, untoward tastes that Commander Dupré and Claire had become friends.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

It would seem from the tenor of this remarkable enactment that much of the sudden revulsion of popular feeling had been owing to the assumption of all legislative action by the baronage alone.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard

It had been owing to the fact that the ---th Dragoons, in which John Clark had served, happened to be lying there that Selina made his acquaintance. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas