Sentence examples for he merely took from inspiring English sources

He merely took them to the extreme.

Edwards did not stare at Martin -- he merely took darting glances at the ankle.

He merely took it out of the cart, and, with the native driver, he pulled the cart up to the place occupied by the others.

It isn't that he merely took a blowtorch to all the affectations and pretences of genre fiction.

He has no time for ketamine but blames himself: like cocaine, he merely took an enormous line.

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.

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.

Whitman came to Washington determined to make the best of the office she merely "took".

When the lawyer explained who he was, and said he was merely taking pictures of his car, he was free to go.