Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [art] middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | These guys do anything , you know , U turns in the middle of anywhere , they , they can do it , you ca n't . |
| 2 | Dr Mackintosh was a red-faced Scot with mousy greying hair parted in the middle and tiny gold-rimmed glasses on the tip of his rather short nose . |
| 3 | She was a very efficient , neat woman with a reddish face , her hair parted in the middle and drawn back tightly against her head . |
| 4 | With hair parted in the middle , he retained the appearance of a youthful student almost to the end . |
| 5 | Alexandra , in her new afternoon dress , her hair parted in the middle and drawn up by Lyddy into a series of padded puffs and curves behind , waited in the drawing-room on the edge of the sofa . |
| 6 | ‘ Self ’ turned out to be a dark-complexioned , somewhat solemn- looking young woman , with large eyes and swept-back hair parted in the middle . |
| 7 | The match started at a fast and furious pace with much of the play contained in the middle of the park as both sides fought to gain control of the all-important midfield . |
| 8 | The story starts in the middle of the last century when Darlington was expanding rapidly . |
| 9 | That was when I saw it , right in front of me , a large lump of rock bang in the middle of the track . |
| 10 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |
| 11 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 12 | Bella stopped in the middle of the kitchen with a huge pile of plates and said quietly , ‘ Is that what you really want ? |
| 13 | At the base of the rapid , a huge rock stands in the middle of the channel . |
| 14 | A RANDY Rajah had this special harem lock made in the middle of the last century to protect his sizzling sex slaves . |
| 15 | A woman with a Jag parked in the middle of the road and a caravan and what have ya |
| 16 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 17 | Everyone sits in a circle with one person sitting blindfolded in the middle . |
| 18 | Horsedrawn trams were introduced in 1882 , using rail-lines set in the middle of the main roads — in Chiswick , from the foot of Kew Bridge — just in front of the ‘ Star & Garter ’ inn — to Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 19 | A man had suddenly emerged out of the blinding iridescence of the mist , a vague figure standing in the middle of the road with his back towards us . |
| 20 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 21 | The road was just as wide as the Tri-Pacer , and fearing a truck would not see us if we pulled off to the side , we left the aircraft sitting in the middle of the road . |
| 22 | I think Mo left in the middle of all that . |
| 23 | A sombre stone chamber , its walls were adorned with green velvet drapes while a polished table with benches on either side stood in the middle of the rush-strewn floor . |
| 24 | Cathy Carne stood in the middle of the shop . |
| 25 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 26 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 27 | This lovely old-fashioned British postbox sits in the middle of a village green . |
| 28 | The springs sagged in the middle and before night was over all four bodies were entangled in a heap in the middle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Talk of lightning strikes in rugby bars normally conjures up pictures of a nifty piece of front-row footwork , usually attributable to the troglodyte located in the middle of the dark tunnel . |