as if somebody owns the place

The rest of you close up and walk as if you owned the place, but quietly.

Walking around as if you own the place?'

It was always best to look as if you owned the place when there was a possibility you might be stopped for questioning.

But you know us and you act as if you own the place, John Keel.'

You can live there a lifetime, just as if you owned the place, and there are no taxes and no maintenance.

For a concentrated dose, don your glad rags, stand up tall and strut into the bar of one of the posh hotels as if you own the place.

Helen Beaton winced and said: "How dare you come charging in here as if you own the place, telling us what is important and what isn't.

From the old word photus in Latation, vhich means-' ' "To prance around like a pillock ordering everyone about as if you owned the place",' said William.

His 'act as if you own the place' approach seemed to work, and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex, not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby.