Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 3 | Why do n't we locate them in the middle of , of fields ? why do they have them at all ? |
| 4 | David Hunt from Downing Street told Lascelles that Ramsey had been known to stop in a procession , send for a pair of trousers to replace the wrong ones which he had put on by mistake , and change them in the middle of the aisle . |
| 5 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 6 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 7 | What happens if the muse strikes — no , that is hardly the appropriate word — if the muse visits you in the middle of a case ? |
| 8 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 9 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 10 | Unfortunately he phoned him in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | So I 've added it in the middle , rather than at the end . |
| 12 | A man with a long knife cut the dolphins ' skins and fat from the bodies , by cutting across the dolphin 's head , slicing it down the middle , then peeling off the outer layer . |
| 13 | We could have just collected all the cards up , put them in the middle of the car park and all just stood over them . |
| 14 | And we just put them in the middle of the room and |
| 15 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 16 | You hold them in the middle like that so you , it 's strong . |
| 17 | MARJORIE woke him in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 19 | But if you set it up jointly , you ca n't direct all the gross income if that 's what you 're thinking you ca n't say well I 'll have all that income gross cos my wife 's got an unused allowance , you 've got to split it down the middle in the case of a joint account . |
| 20 | Take the ball and put it in the middle of the flour . |
| 21 | I think you put it in the middle and then so like |
| 22 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 23 | Put it in the middle here . |
| 24 | If you have to cut a notch in a joist to run a pipe , cut it in the middle of the floorboard and leave a little room for expansion |
| 25 | It was an enraging affectation , worthy of an Oxford undergraduate , especially as Charlie might do it in the middle of a conversation , as he had done recently at a college gig : the Union President was talking to him when Charlie 's hands reached into his side pocket , the book was extracted and opened , and the man 's eyes popped in disbelief as Charlie imbibed a beakerful of the warm South . |
| 26 | But if my cousin wants to contemplate the mysteries of the unknown , then he may as well do it in the middle of a Ch'noze snowstorm . ’ |
| 27 | No you have to , you 'd , you 'd , you 'd do it in the middle in the hold , not in the middle of the hold on the side of the hold , where your , where your air tank was . |
| 28 | We 've a right to govern our own country , and we 've a right not to be told by other countries that we should be split into two , that we 're two different nations because they decided to split us down the middle . |
| 29 | 'I 'll knock you into the middle of next week . ’ |
| 30 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |