They walked up to the counter, where the proprietor barely gave them a cursory look before jotting down their order.

He asked for a bar of candy, and the proprietor of the store gave it to him.

Newspaper journalists, proprietors, police and politicians are giving evidence under oath to the inquiry.

The proprietor gave a lecture and showed what seemed to be hundreds of carpets in all sizes.

The fat proprietor gave an approving nod as though he had personally settled the whole problem.

The proprietor had naturally given him the job.

The proprietor even gave us a reduction when we bought more than a handful.

The proprietor gave a big smile of relief, sweat was prickling his forehead.

So now they each had lights on the screen of the other, because the proprietors had given her the same zeroing-in device.

He might have struck the keg and knocked it off its supports if the proprietor hadn't given him a push.