Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | By most standards this was a peculiarly non-threatening document but we were in the middle of a general election . |
| 2 | WHEN the great gale struck in October 1987 , the FitzPatricks were in the middle of building their Hedlunds home in the village of Upton Grey , near Basingstoke . |
| 3 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 4 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 5 | It was then that Brough discovered they were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 6 | Mayne 's party spent the rest of the night dodging the enemy and , as dawn broke , they discovered that they were in the middle of a large military camp . |
| 7 | They had now almost finished Exodus and were in the middle of The Wind in the Willows . |
| 8 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 9 | They were in the middle of a leisurely Saturday lunch , the sort of meal that stretches imperceptibly into afternoon tea . |
| 10 | Indeed , given the fact that they were in the middle of a war the balance of which they were afraid might tip disastrously against them , would they really have opted out other than by a deliberate political decision which would not be taken until well into the future ? |
| 11 | The wooden soldiers were in the middle of the room in front of them . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I had to have my tonsils out when we were in the middle of producing Tamburlaine , which meant that the stage management made a right old mess of pulling on the chariot . |
| 13 | We were in the middle of working out a plot . |
| 14 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 15 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 16 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 17 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |
| 18 | If one were in the middle of a flat plane , conveniently marked with a square grid , then the outcome would be as in Figure 4.9 ( b ) . |
| 19 | Well , after all , we were in the middle of Scotland at the time . |
| 20 | In spite of this , in the individual developing countries , with the exception of a few ( probably due to the small sample size for the extreme age categories ) , and in all developing regions , levels of mortality are much higher for infants born to women who have not reached age 20 and those aged 40 and over than to babies whose mothers were in the middle of their childbearing ages ( i.e. in the 20–39 years age group ) at their birth . |
| 21 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 22 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 23 | It felt as if you were in the middle of some enormous forest where the trees had grown together , blocking out the day . |
| 24 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 25 | They were in the middle of a hideous ritual , and they were the sacrificial victims . |
| 26 | Rocky was on the right , Rodney was on the left , Speed and McAllister were in the middle , Deane was up front and we had Weatherall and Newsome in their nightmare scenario pairing as centre backs . |
| 27 | We were in the middle of a landfight and spent the night in a Serb Police APC . |
| 28 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |
| 29 | They were in the middle of the dinner when we got there . |
| 30 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |