Sentence examples for drew on him from inspiring English sources

This bill of oldies singers from the early 1960's is suffused with vocal drama and connections to Phil Spector, who produced Gene Pitney's defining hit, "Town Without Pity," and drew on him as a songwriter for the Crystals' "He's a Rebel".

Thomas Reid spoke of "the immortal Hugo Grotius," Hutcheson drew on him extensively, and Hume approvingly cited an argument of his about the origins of property in the third appendix of his second Enquiry.

Seeing them with their pistols drawn on him, Robertson turned and headed back across Long Beach Boulevard, shifting his gun from one hand to the other, according to the video.

"Senator John Ashcroft has a bulls-eye drawn on him by liberal political groups whose heat-seeking missiles are not only directed at him, but at others who hold beliefs different than their own," said Beverly LaHaye, chairwoman of Concerned Women for America.

Of course, fellow artists readily draw on him for paintings, operas and ballets.

As you can imagine, Conan got a lot of penises drawn on him (like, an ungodly amount of penises).

Under marijuana Mexicans [become] very violent, especially when they become angry and will attack an officer even if a gun is drawn on him.

Richard Baxter, on the other hand, described Anne as "one of [Hale's] own judgment and temper, prudent and loving, and fit to please him; and that would not draw on him the trouble of much acquaintance and relations".

Working at an agency has allowed him to draw on more inventory and to face less risk.

On the left there was an expanding political base for him to draw on, as the post-war consensus fell apart in the crisis of the 1970s.

Both draw on primary documents.