Example sentences of "[vb -s] in his [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 2 | He has in his grasp the ability to reduce anyone to tears , through a snappy headline or lurid story . |
| 3 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 4 | Whitely has in his book The Theology of the New Testament a powerful image of an officer in the war who had to lead his troops across a dangerous minefield . |
| 5 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 6 | He constructs in his mind a sense of the overarching power and obdurateness of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 7 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 8 | ( Matthew : Matthew wishes to emphasise the Messianic role of Jesus and includes in his account a quotation from the prophet Zechariah . |
| 9 | Many a PCC is also actively engaged in raising funds for the preservation and development of its church , an activity to which Dr George Carey testifies in his book The Church in the Market Place . |
| 10 | Instead of locating the other elsewhere in the transgressive writing of literature or madness , Foucault himself becomes plato 's banished poet , and enacts in his language a supplementary simulacrum of the delirium of history . |
| 11 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 12 | But we are soon warned that the young officer in the Venturer hides in his memory the image of a girl met years before , so that his response to a strange night-vision seems entirely logical . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most paranoid variation on this theme comes from William Milton Cooper , who suggests in his pamphlet The Secret Government that J.F. Kennedy was in fact killed because he was about to blow the gaff on the alien conspiracy . |
| 14 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |