Example sentences of "the middle [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partial and passionate critic also writing in the middle of the nineteenth century was John Ruskin , as devoted to Turner as Baudelaire was to Delacroix . |
| 2 | In this , as in Western perspective , the horizon line is somewhere below the middle of the picture . |
| 3 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 4 | It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her . |
| 5 | ‘ I am thinking , Miss Abernethie , she is perhaps wondering , Like myself , why you were sent for to Naples in the middle of the new-engaged couple 's holiday . |
| 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 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 9 | In the middle of the series ' first run this presentation will provide an opportunity to consider how successful FAMILY PRIDE has been in launching onto the region 's and the nation 's screens the UK 's first Asian soap . |
| 10 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 11 | I stumbled out of the hotel and into the middle of the road , narrowly missing being killed by a taxi . |
| 12 | In the middle of the borders , where I ca n't reach without treading on the soil , I grow shrubs and perennials that need hardly any attention during the year . |
| 13 | It is a harsh punishment to have to walk the glider all the way back , particularly after a cable break where the glider lands in the middle of the airfield . |
| 14 | You do not leave a new lover in the middle of the night . |
| 15 | Finally , if the referee brings both fists together in the middle of the chest , this means that both contestants scored at the same time , so no awards will be made . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 18 | ‘ In the middle of the hay harvest . |
| 19 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 20 | The sky never seemed to wake up and about the middle of the day it darkened . |
| 21 | It stood in the middle of the room , apparently on its way somewhere . |
| 22 | And the Chesterfield , which stood , as Don had last seen it , in the middle of the room , waiting to go somewhere , was now plumply buttoned in the most florid of Sanderson prints . |
| 23 | I had to pull the tape out of the machine , interrupt the music right in the middle of the song . |
| 24 | When I saw no one in the middle of the room , which had been full of music and smoke and pungent with the smell of hashish , I thought he might have forgotten to turn off the music before he went to sleep . |
| 25 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The main attachment points of these muscles to the bones are on the shoulders , the base of the skull and the middle of the back . |
| 28 | The middle of the month arrives with you really having a fling . |
| 29 | I stood in the middle of the room growling and showing my teeth , then I made a puddle ! |
| 30 | And indeed the frayed scrappy edges he had cut off from his trousers were lying strewn on the floor , in the middle of the room for everyone to see ! |