Example sentences of "[vb past] in the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our camera … got the closest shave and nearly crashed in the middle of the forest … |
| 2 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 3 | The bed , probably another of Stanley 's acquisitions , sagged in the middle . |
| 4 | They sagged in the middle and Endill was sure they would all squeak . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The springs sagged in the middle and before night was over all four bodies were entangled in a heap in the middle . |
| 7 | Although the bolts were thick , I still bent in the middle when I was lifted and carried , a man at either of my ends . |
| 8 | So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something . |
| 9 | This was very self-conscious imitation , as is proved by the peculiarities of some epigrams which celebrate the family 's achievements : a surviving pair commemorates the Persian victories in the strange order Salamis-Marathon ; it was perhaps Kimon himself who thus sought to remain Athenians , in verse , of his father 's great battle , just as painters were to remind them of it by their Marathon in the Painted Stoa built in the middle of the fifth century : Oinoe , a deme close to Marathon , was the title of one of the subsidiary hoplite engagements depicted . |
| 10 | Bella stopped in the middle of the kitchen with a huge pile of plates and said quietly , ‘ Is that what you really want ? |
| 11 | Eventually it stopped in the middle of nowhere . |
| 12 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 13 | She stopped in the middle of a scream and the breath left her body with a groan . |
| 14 | It so fascinated me that I stopped in the middle of the subway . |
| 15 | Carrie was good at stories but sometimes she stopped in the middle and had to be prodded . |
| 16 | Richard Burbage was on stage and he suddenly looked up and stopped in the middle of a word . |
| 17 | She clung to him , and they stopped in the middle of the pavement , with the rain falling all round , its liquid percussion in drains , in gutters , on trees , on the umbrella , the only sounds . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you get to the — ’ But he stopped in the middle of his question . |
| 19 | He stopped in the middle of the pavement and took her arm . |
| 20 | Glastonbury stopped in the middle of the second flight of stairs and gazed earnestly at him . |
| 21 | And there was a single decker bus then , right , stopped in the middle of the road and there was an Escort and he 'd gone under the back right up to his windscreen like that the back |
| 22 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 23 | Some of the beggars knelt in the middle of the pavement , arms raised in an attitude of crucifixion , their rheumy eyes lifted heavenwards like the imploring ecstasies of El Greco saints . |
| 24 | He felt landlocked in the middle of all those fields . ’ |
| 25 | It was designed by Sir E. Leader Williams , the ship canal 's engineer , and is a colossal steel tank , 78 yards long and weighing 1,450 tons , pivoted in the middle to swing through 90° by hydraulic power when required . |
| 26 | It should have been a problem because the personal details of Flora are meant to be secret , under the terms of a high court injunction granted in the middle of last month , Sarah is not allowed to discuss anything about her daughter with anyone , other than her legal and medical advisors . |
| 27 | I woke in the middle of the night and walked downstairs . |
| 28 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 29 | A woman with a Jag parked in the middle of the road and a caravan and what have ya |
| 30 | As the pasta drained , he gave the sauce a quick blast on the ring , and we ate in the middle of his room as enjoyably as in a trattoria . |