Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Novosibirsk , which lies in the middle of Siberia on the mighty Ob river , it is only 3,343km ( 2,077 miles ) to Moscow . |
| 2 | She lies in the middle of Europe and has no protected borders … |
| 3 | The fourth largest lake in Iceland , it lies in the middle of an area of intense geothermal and volcanic activity , and its thirty-seven square kilometres of water surface provide a summer home to large numbers of waterfowl . |
| 4 | Such a mistake is down to inexperience , but I am still not convinced that Weir 's best position lies in the middle of the back row . |
| 5 | One person — the fox — stands in the middle , and the others — the geese — all go to one end of the room . |
| 6 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 7 | A blackened Anglican church , to cater for the enlarged Victorian population , stands in the middle of the view . |
| 8 | At the base of the rapid , a huge rock stands in the middle of the channel . |
| 9 | A round , gradual , shallow cone , the Hillock has , at first sight , no context : it stands in the middle of a field , growing scrabby grass , an egregious lone breast . |
| 10 | One Rainbow stands in the middle . |
| 11 | One player stands in the middle of the room and points ‘ North ’ with her arm . |
| 12 | Rail thing : Actor Thomas Clugson , playing the part of William Dargan ( the father of Irish Railways ) stands in the middle of the Lagan central bridge section of the new X-Harbour Rail Link . |
| 13 | Well there 's a cat , I do n't know who 's black and white cat it is it comes from the council houses and that stands in the middle of the road ! |
| 14 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 15 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 16 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 17 | The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly . |
| 18 | Alright , and then there 's this extraordinary bit erm , that George has in the middle of page thirty , about what happened when he did run the history department for four years during the War . |
| 19 | Grove House shelters in the middle of a forest , surrounded by 5000 acres of woodland , moors and becks where deer , squirrels and many birds can be seen . |
| 20 | The hay is laid across the poles ( which are supported on the trestles ) and lower wire triangle , leaving a small air space where the hay meets in the middle of the tripod . |
| 21 | However , be aware that the stress pattern may change when the word occurs in the middle of an utterance and that there may be some phonetic conditioning across word boundaries . |
| 22 | Theo Waigel , the finance minister , explained that Germany could not afford draconian budget cuts in the middle of recession . |
| 23 | It read , simply : ‘ Motorway route confirmed ; no public announcement until the House reassembles in the middle of the month . ’ |
| 24 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 25 | They are linked by a narrow ridge which dips in the middle to a saddle . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sometimes he phones in the middle of the day just to ask what lingerie I 'm wearing . |
| 28 | The waters of the world 's oceans are tugged outwards by the gravitational pull of the moon : a hill of water forms in the middle of the ocean when the moon is appropriately positioned above it . |
| 29 | These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't . |
| 30 | There ought to be a law against cutting off power supplies in the middle of February . |