Sentence examples for think he borrowed from inspiring English sources

He shrugged off the idea that his readers might think he borrowed from the series.

I think he borrowed the flashlight from one of the Pinkerton guards.

One of these Souda students, Manir, is about the height of my elbow, fair-skinned, with a close-cropped haircut, pale blue down jacket, and a drawn-on earring (I think he borrows one of the felt tip pens in the entrance hall to trace it anew every morning).

M. Carré of the French East Indies Company described the solitaire in 1699, explaining the reason for its name: A marooned French Huguenot, François Leguat, used the name "solitaire" for the Raphine bird he encountered on the nearby island of Rodrigues in the 1690s, but it is thought he borrowed the name from a 1689 tract by Marquis Henri Duquesne which mentioned the Réunion species.

I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul".

(He did not say: "I don't know why he did it. I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations. I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul").

Cameron may think he can borrow her glamour, authority and charisma with all this grandiosity, but he risks dwindling beneath her shadow, the leader who couldn't win one election, let alone three.

But the gravity came from somewhere deep inside Godard, a defeatist quality symbolized by those fatalistic overhead shots he thought he was borrowing from Fritz Lang.

"Like a gambler who can't give up, he thinks he can borrow himself out of trouble," Mr. Osborne told Parliament.

Until now it had been thought that he borrowed such anti-clerical attitudes from his Welsh fellow-writer Caradoc Evans, who satirised the sexual habits of outwardly godly men, particularly towards women in their own households.

I think they borrowed a kit from a Manchester regiment," Dewsnip said.