Example sentences of "set in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 2 | By the time I was born he seems to have become set in his ways . |
| 3 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 4 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 5 | Perhaps Mr Browning was entirely above reproach , though there were those who saw him constantly at Isa Blagden 's and thought that friendship promised more ; perhaps he was able to subdue the desires of a healthy man in his prime , but Ferdinando would not be able to if temptation was set in his way . |
| 6 | Even if someone were to leave the Department , or drop dead-even if you were to , what 's the expression , take out a contract on one of us ’ — he laughs to show that this is a joke , displaying a number of chipped and discoloured teeth , set in his gums at odd angles , like tombstones in a neglected churchyard — ‘ even then , I very much doubt whether we should get a replacement . |
| 7 | Herbert was then twenty-eight and no doubt set in his carefree ways . |
| 8 | But he was in his thirties , and already much set in his ways , and perhaps reluctant to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 9 | He was a devoted and loyal colleague who was too old and set in his ways when he became Professor to introduce major developments , but signs of change were seen , coming to fruition in his successor 's reign . |
| 10 | Sickness and pride , in the grey light of day , were set in his unchanging face like a mask . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's just a bit set in his ways . ’ |
| 12 | He 's too set in his ways to change . ’ |
| 13 | John Braine 's first novel , Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , was set in his native Yorkshire , and it contrived to make even London sound cosmopolitan and far away . |
| 14 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 15 | In his forthcoming seven-part television sitcom , Sean 's Show , set in his Muswell Hill flat , Hughes will attempt to come to terms with the hidden perils of his everyday existence while battling against traditional sitcom conventions . |
| 16 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |
| 17 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 18 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 19 | She handed Jack the syringe with the long needle , and he slid it neatly between the ribs and into the heart while Kath injected the other drugs into the giving set in his arm . |
| 20 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 21 | Its finest episodes are the central ‘ Dirge ’ ( sung by Brian Rayner Cook a little insecurely ) which is a memorial to Parry 's brother- in-law , who died at 45 while this work was being written , and the subsequent chorus ‘ Man , born of desire ’ ( which Holst also set in his Choral Fantasia ) . |
| 22 | Nairn in Darkness and Light gives us Thomson set in his own history , a man observing his personal continuity in the context of his ancestral surroundings . |