Sentence examples for has set his mind from inspiring English sources

"But he is a big guy who has set his mind to something and did it".

It's tempting to say that Hadron Collider shows how great Hynes can be when he sets his mind to it, but the weird thing about Freetown Sound is that he clearly has set his mind to it throughout.

He had set his mind to gaining weight.

From his accession Alexander had set his mind on the Persian expedition.

He is confident he could have been a 2008 Olympian in track if he had set his mind to it.

The experience of Milwaukee - where Calatrava completed his first American project, in 2001, an extension to an existing art gallery - will not have set his mind at rest.

The essays by Kristol from the 1940s and '50s in this new, posthumous collection make me suppose that he, too, could have written a book like theirs, if he had set his mind to it.

"But I always had a sense that he was special, a man who had set his mind to accomplishing great things, and had ransomed his life to the task.

This led to a severe conflict with his father, who had set his mind on Mervyn's Oxford education and was wounded by his son's activities in the Communist party.

Anupong was constantly pressed at a news conference on what he would do if neither side heeded his calls, but would only say that he had set his mind against using force.

It has been suggested that Mr Sawyer, who had already lost a sister to Ebola, was not interested in medical assistance as he had set his mind on visiting one of Nigeria's popular Pentecostal churches in search of a cure from one of the so-called miracle pastors.