Sentence examples for that lent him from inspiring English sources

Commercial Mortgage, the General Motors subsidiary that lent him $564 million.

In exasperation, Hands has turned on Citigroup, the US investment bank that lent him £2.6bn to fund the purchase.

The charity that lent him the money for the lot did not respond to repeated messages, while a foundation that provided a sizable grant declined to comment.

But, as with many of Tarantino's bad guys, he also had a rat-like cunning and a dry wit that lent him a kind of glamour.

Getting a grip on Mr. Trump's financial situation has never been easy -- just ask the banks that lent him millions in the 1980's, shortly before his real estate and gambling empire collapsed.

Swayze showed us a whole new side ("we're afraid to face our ego reflection") in Donnie Darko – a career-reviving role that lent him the kind of cred Tom Cruise picked up in Magnolia.

Will owns thick black-frame glasses but no hairbrush or comb, traits that lend him the look of a basement-bound hacker.

Mr. Berry is 49, with a slim build and a bushy white goatee that lends him the appearance of an aging beatnik.

Mr. Davidson is 76 now, a vigorous, round-faced man given to wearing heavy work shirts and boots that lend him the appearance of a carpenter.

Face to face, it's a similar story: Gordon-Levitt has tiny eyes – dark dashes buried in big sockets that lend him an odd look of permanent upset, as if, not so long ago, he might have been crying.

It is Mr. Romney's family portrait that lends him credibility in his appeals to all-important social conservative voters here, many of whom are still grappling with whether to believe he is really one of them despite some of his past positions, like support of abortion rights.