Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the middle of the wood , so I did n't know which way I was walking . |
| 2 | The class started , and I was in the middle of reading aloud a prose passage from Galdós when the door opened and in walked the fair-haired god I had glimpsed in the gallery . |
| 3 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 4 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 5 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 6 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 7 | I was in the middle of the aircraft next to the wireless operator , who read a book the whole way and ignored me completely . |
| 8 | And I was in the middle of all this , I was the engine of it all . |
| 9 | I do n't like shouting so I was in the middle . |
| 10 | When I was a teenager I was in the middle of a techno revolution , listening to Japanese avant-garde , techno and new rave bands . |
| 11 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 12 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 14 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 15 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |
| 16 | I was in the middle of papers [ he wrote ] when Mr Stanley Baldwin was announced at the door . |
| 17 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the middle of tea when the trial began . ’ |
| 19 | I was in the middle of the Galaxy in empty space . |
| 20 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 21 | I was in the middle of trying to find out if you 'll come and have dinner with me next week . |
| 22 | But the place was manned by corpses , and I was in the middle of a desert of the dead . |
| 23 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 24 | I do not know how long I slept , but when I woke up , I was in the middle of a storm . |
| 25 | I was in the middle of my favourite dream , standing in the dungeons , sipping a cup of claret whilst masked torturers had Fat Henry spreadeagled on the cruellest rack . |
| 26 | I was in London when they happened — I just walked straight out of the Tube station and I was in the middle of a mass demonstration . ’ |
| 27 | I was in the middle of the kop for this game , and in the first half it was very much the place to be . |
| 28 | ‘ I was in the middle of painting a tile and I 'd like to finish it before it dries . |
| 29 | While all this was going on I was in the middle of trying to buy my farm back from a pension fund . |
| 30 | I was in the middle of them both and passing on horrible messages from one to the other . |