Sentence examples for the character is based from inspiring English sources

The character is based on the real-life White House butler Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents between 1952 and his retirement in 1986.

(The character is based on Georges Simenon).

The character is based loosely on Mr. Sedgwick's mother, Emily Lincoln Sedgwick, who was treated briefly at McLean for depression several years ago.

The character is based on Dr. Jerome Groopman, a Boston physician who chronicled his clinical experiences in the 1997 book "The Measure of Our Days".

But the character is based on that famous picture of WH Auden with a cigarette: his face is so wrinkled, and that, really, was the starting point.

If Geller is proved right and the character is based on him, even if by carelessness or accident, he could be due vast damages from Nintendo.

The character was based largely on the person he was in high school, he told The Miami Herald in 2009.

"That is what we thought the character was based on until, twenty years later, we were accused of being nasty about people with bad eyesight," he said.

(In our conversation, Nava told me the character was based on his friend Richard Rouilard, who edited the Advocate in the early nineties and died of AIDS in 1996).

The character was based on the real-life debater, Henry Heights.

The character was based on one of producer Dean Devlin's uncles.