Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 2 | I wondered how long I would survive , with no food or drink in the middle of the ocean . |
| 3 | It 's the block that goes in the middle , when you put down the clamp pushes that along . |
| 4 | It was a single , narrow affair with a wafer-thin mattress that sagged in the middle and was covered by a brown woollen blanket that had probably been there since the hotel was built . |
| 5 | One piece of equipment I really liked on the Mercedes was the wiper system — a single arm that dips in the middle of its strokes to maximise its sweep . |
| 6 | I wonder if Pemberton-Billing would be pleased if he could know that modern Laservision discs and Compact Digital Discs work on a similar principle , although starting in the middle and slowing down . |
| 7 | It was a big room with a high , moulded ceiling and a draped bed that stood in the middle of it like a throne . |
| 8 | Miss Honey paused and leaned back in her chair behind the plain table that stood in the middle of the floor in front of the class . |
| 9 | It 's a contemplative thing and what I would recommend you is go to The Tate and sit in the middle of the Rothgo Room there , which is actually a series of canvasses , as you probably know , of a sort of reddish hue , entirely abstract , and you are surrounded by these in a small , fairly dimly lit room , and spend half an hour there and see perhaps whether they work on you . |
| 10 | Charlie frowned and stopped in the middle of taking off his shirt . |
| 11 | Dad came in and I was struck by how handsome he seemed with his moustache freshly waxed and his hair brushed flat and parted in the middle . |
| 12 | because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah ! |
| 13 | Richard Burbage was on stage and he suddenly looked up and stopped in the middle of a word . |
| 14 | There is , however , a second sense in which the idea of tackling a problem from both ends , and meeting in the middle , is relevant to the brain . |
| 15 | And then come round and stand in the middle please . |
| 16 | But why start early and finish in the middle of the day ? |
| 17 | Blenheim in a couple of weeks and sandwiched in the middle are the European Championships in Germany … |
| 18 | A stun grenade was hurled through the window on the left and landed in the middle of the room . |
| 19 | The private detective following them cursed when they stopped and kissed in the middle of the street . |
| 20 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 21 | If you 'd all like to come and stand in the middle , yes |
| 22 | Some way past the hotel , still on the few hundred yards of concrete ‘ promenade ’ , I saw a very tall elderly man standing and bending in the middle of the road , apparently looking for something . |
| 23 | The economies total output , its Gross Domestic Product , expanded for much of the eighties and peaked in the middle of nineteen ninety . |
| 24 | The crucial step began with a determination to rise and pray in the middle of the night ; he continued in prayer the following morning , and took for spiritual nutriment the Bible and the Wesleyan hymn-book . |
| 25 | Should n't keep smoking and fighting in the middle of the front room . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp says it today starts shipping its new MT personal computers , a family of vertically-oriented 80486 machines that occupy one-third the space of conventional desktop systems : prices for the DECpc MT series go from $2,350 to $2,800 and fall in the middle of its line , it said . |
| 27 | I doubled across the cobbled yard and stood in the middle of the road to watch the jeeps disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust . |
| 28 | Leaning her bike against the gate , she hopped up and over , then raced to the bridge and under it , and stood in the middle of the road holding both hands out and shouting to the van to stop . |
| 29 | I went straight upstairs and stood in the middle of my bedroom . |
| 30 | The archaeologist ran in front of them and stood in the middle of the road . |