Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them . |
| 2 | This sensation of being hemmed in in the middle of Europe was heightened by the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 , although it was Bismarck 's great achievement that he united his country in concert with the other nations of Europe . |
| 3 | This particular form of the game is not that old , having come in in the middle of the last century , when changes took place in the technology of pelota . |
| 4 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 5 | The decorator who is given the keys for the purpose of working , will be a trespasser if he lets himself in in the middle of the night to watch a video . |
| 6 | ‘ She put the old kite right down in the middle of the fairway . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's dead — dropped right down in the middle of the cake-tasting . |
| 8 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 9 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 10 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 11 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 12 | ‘ Coming down in the middle of the night like that probably muddled the hell out of them . |
| 13 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 14 | Yesterday a fuse blew and all the screens went down in the middle of the show . |
| 15 | She cleared these things to one side and laid the cigar down in the middle of the dressing-table . |
| 16 | Then she sat down in the middle of the court . |
| 17 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 18 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 19 | They fell into step together , and went down onto the path which followed the bank of the stream , Jehan laughed softly , and then he sat down in the middle of the carpet to eat the last of the sweet cakes . |
| 20 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 21 | ‘ When we got to Parma the car ( which worked on methane gas ] broke down in the middle of piazza Garibaldi , which had been completely cleared of civilians because the convoy was going to pass through it . |
| 22 | But face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 23 | Face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 24 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 25 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 26 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 27 | You 've got to put the basin upside down in the middle of the tin or the ducklings 'll fall in and drown . ’ |
| 28 | They liked her because she did n't put the book down in the middle to go and do something else , and because she read stories properly , as if she wanted to know what happened too . |
| 29 | Or ‘ Why do n't you go and lay down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus ? ’ |
| 30 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |