Sentence examples for he merely takes from inspiring English sources
Cowell doesn't tend to pinch them; he merely takes up with them some time after the original relationship has run its course.
He merely takes the story's central conceit — a dead man, his heart apparently still beating, is stashed under the floorboards of his killer's room — and uses it as a symbol of the murderer's sense of guilt.
I always thought of BDR as Allen's one great irreproachable romance, but having watched it again, I see the finale is much more inconclusive than I first assumed: Danny and Tina don't kiss, or even embrace, after the former's dash through the streets; he merely takes her arm, and they walk back together.
He merely took them to the extreme.
Edwards did not stare at Martin -- he merely took darting glances at the ankle.
He has no time for ketamine but blames himself: like cocaine, he merely took an enormous line.
It isn't that he merely took a blowtorch to all the affectations and pretences of genre fiction.
As Seldon put it in his 2007 book Blair Unbound: "Balls had no respect for Blair as an economist or a thinker, and assumed that he merely took his script from Heywood".
The answer, the critics eventually decided, was that Boswell didn't exactly write the Life, he merely took it down -- a faithful but mindless stenographer; the virtues of the book simply reflected the virtues of its subject, the Great Cham himself.
He merely took unchecked power away from the judiciary - which is still full of personalities from the Mubarak era - until the constitution is done and there are systems in place to allow the country to move forward.
Her lawyers have said she merely took pity on the man, John William Yettaw, after he complained of exhaustion and pleaded with her to stay.
