The Bata company owned the town, providing accommodations at a reasonable rate to its workers.

He'd own the town by becoming supreme dictator of the underworld.

He might own half the town, but he didn't own Peter.

By 1955 his son Alfred owned the entire town.

He owns the general store and half the town.

Together, they pretty nearly owned the town, but they didn't do much about it.

It's not as though I own the town.

But since Kady now owned the town, she wasn't trespassing.

Mike Patterson, who owns the town, does not take walk-in visitors.

At one time we owned the whole town.