The child was bent on business and did nothing else. I was angry with him.
They are always bent on interfering in other countries' internal affairs.
Fred was subtle, and did not tell his friends that he was going to Houndsley bent on selling his horse.
My own worst lapses of behaviour tend to occur not when I'm intent on pleasing other people but when I'm hell bent on pleasing myself.
Intellectuals who were trained through the feudal tradition, bent on delving into the eight-part essay, and they knew nothing about the world outside.
The Master said, "At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven."
He is bent on mastering Spanish.
The worker is fully bent on the project.
I exclaimed, touching her shoulder; 'you are not bent on getting your death, are you?
He escaped, and fled again, but was caught in Naples and badly wounded by men from Malta, bent on revenge.
Even if you're not hell-bent on changing your life because you're satisfied with yourself, life's a lot sweeter when you take the time to smell the roses.
A vote for the DA, they were told, was a vote for a white-supremacist party “hell-bent on treating black people as subhuman” and on bringing back apartheid.
Obstinately bent on having one's own way.
Yet he seems bent on emulating Hugo chavez, the caudillo of Caracas.
Led by Billy the Kid, hell-bent on creating is own kingdom, he slaughters townspeople and rounds up children.
Neither you nor I - nor any of the legions of neuroscientists bent on opening the secrets of that invisible force, as powerful and erratic as the wind.
Is the UN of any use at all in a world in which a single country towers over all others in military, political and economic clout, and is bent on having its own way?
The Ousters:eon-long mutated humanoids bent on overthrowing the Hegemony.
Start from strong patriotic wish, Liu Guangdi, as an intellectual, was bent on the reform movement, and brought forward his opinions on politics, economy and culture.
There are plot twists in the form of an eraser bent on destruction, but this being a kids' book, you can count on once upon a time ending with happily ever after.
He is bent on winning at all costs.
The Kremlin's main explanation for Mr Litvinenko's demise is to blame both it and the Politkovskaya killing on hostile forces bent on discrediting Mr Putin.
He was still an artist bent on charity to hundreds of millions of dollars in personal contributions, in addressing global poverty, chaos and violence is a great tribute to the question.
However, Busan appeared to face a greater threat from Kwangyang, another South Korean port bent on increasing its transhipment traffic.
He's fully bent on the project.
The coalition's leaders are now openly bent on amassing a majority big enough to override the presidential veto and strip Mr Yushchenko of his residual powers.
Clearly what erroneous all have no, bent on having because of side the person's fault namely subjected to this accidental misfortune.
The rest of the dinner, I was hell-bent on getting him to eat French fries, drink wine, have dessert and say bad words, things he never seemed to allow himself to do.
He was bent on creating an independent mind and personality, leaving his independence, and his heart was not satisfied.
They see the West as a foe bent on stopping them.
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