Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 3 | The entrance was in the middle of the wall opposite the villa house where the owner and his family lived . |
| 4 | We got bread , no we got bread and then the only time we got chips was in the middle of the week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Irene Norton was in the middle of it , but Sherlock Holmes ran to help her . |
| 7 | The real turning point was in the middle of the tour — the natural break in it — July and August . |
| 8 | The Mock Turtle was in the middle of a very sad song when they all heard a shout a long way away : ‘ It 's beginning ! ’ |
| 9 | Mr Malik was in the middle of a group crowded round Mafouz . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The office block was in the middle of a hellish whirlwind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 14 | Probably the most idyllic polling station in Britain , the Bucks Horn Oak voting centre was in the middle of Alice Holt Forest . |
| 15 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 16 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 17 | Three years ago we trained foragers along a lake and tricked them into dancing to indicate to potential recruit bees in the hive that the food was in the middle of the lake . |
| 18 | Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front . |
| 19 | The wooden soldiers were in the middle of the room in front of them . |
| 20 | The air operations officer was in the middle of co-ordinating the helicopter tasking for the day , when a Wessex landed beside the swimming pool , causing part of the screen fencing to blow into the pool and OC B Company to have a minor sense of humour failure . |
| 21 | On the third day , unshaven and too tired even to eat , I was examining Jimbo while Alec was in the middle of his sick parade . |
| 22 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 23 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 24 | Behind him Charley was in the middle of the road , also beginning to move towards the van . |