1.   Many thousands of children had never even seen, let alone owned a pair of shoes.

2.   Amos stops cackling long enough to tell us he owns a pair of shorts but he never leaves the farm in them.

3.   And even after a decadelong career as a professional violinist, she says, she has never owned a pair of gloves.

4.   Anyone who has owned a pair of jeans knows that the texture of denim is less than lustrous.

5.   Ashley said some sneaker-wearing students reach college age never having owned a pair of hard-soled shoes.

6.   He never owned a pair of blue jeans.

7.   He owns a pair of Fiji mermaids and a two-headed prairie dog.

8.   How many pairs do you own, and where do you find them?

9.   I own a pair of sneakers.