Sentence examples for they owe something from inspiring English sources

They owe something back".

They owe something to the president of the United States.

They owe something to the palace of El Escorial near Madrid but are worked out in terms deriving partly from Palladio and Scamozzi and partly from Jones's own studies of the antique.

The best of these resemble clusters of cells, dust particles and stray hairs seen through a microscope; fashioned partly on a computer, they owe something to the paintings Albert Oehlen made in the mid-1990s.

They owe something to the Saturday-afternoon movie serials that Mr. Crichton watched as a boy and to the adventure novels of Arthur Conan Doyle (from whom Mr. Crichton borrowed the title "The Lost World" and whose example showed that a novel could never have too many dinosaurs).

It's also clear they owe something to the bizarre groundwork supplied by fellow Invisible Dot and Footlights alumni Cowards, whose brief eponymous sketch show aired on BBC4 in 2009, as well as the claustrophobic absurdism practised by the Comic Strip comics, from Bottom to the goings on in French And Saunders' white room.

I once worked for a company which was contacted by a commissioning editor and offered a six-part series because the editor felt they "owed" something to a freelance presenter.

Indy Racing League car owners felt they owed something to the racetrack, which is run by Tony George, who also founded the I.R.L., so they began rummaging around to find enough cars for the 87th Indy 500, which is to be run Sunday.

Many respondents felt they owed something to their country of origin because they trained there and their conscience often bothered them because they decided to leave.

In their concern with light and atmosphere in landscape, they also owe something to Rembrandt's teacher Pieter Lastman, with whom van den Eeckhout would have been familiar.

The proportions and ornament it denotes are usually thought of as a purely Greco-Roman invention, when they actually owe something to Etruria, Mycenae and perhaps Egypt, too.