Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 2 | Whilst I 'm thinking of that notice the way I into the middle of the plate . |
| 3 | 'I 'll knock you into the middle of next week . ’ |
| 4 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 5 | What happens if the muse strikes — no , that is hardly the appropriate word — if the muse visits you in the middle of a case ? |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't want to disturb you in the middle of a meeting . ’ |
| 7 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 8 | I think of you in the middle of all that black water , and I wish that you could be here with me . |
| 9 | ‘ Some answer might come to you in the middle of the night , and if it does n't , you can tackle Faye about it tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | You in the middle ? |
| 11 | We split you down the middle . |
| 12 | Coolly , she said , ‘ OK — I 'll leave you to get on with whatever work will take you to the middle of the night . ’ |
| 13 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 14 | She hands me the hat and moves me into the middle of the pavement . |
| 15 | He then marches straight past me into the middle of the room where he strides around in imperious circles . |
| 16 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 17 | Again Carol acted as if I was n't there , swaying past me into the middle of the camp where she put her hands on her hips and yelled : ‘ Melissa ! |
| 18 | ‘ Are we in the middle of another investigation ? ’ |
| 19 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 20 | ‘ And , ’ she added a little triumphantly , ‘ if my performance as a parlourmaid does n't satisfy , then have the goodness to dismiss me , not bully me in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 21 | you used to wake me in the middle of the night when we were first married |
| 22 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 23 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 24 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 25 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 27 | A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor . |
| 28 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 29 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 30 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |