Example sentences of "in the middle " 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 | The caption material under two images reads as follows : ‘ In the middle nineteenth century , before photography was in general use , Pilinski of Paris was famous ( and notorious ) for the deceptiveness of his copies of old woodcuts . |
| 3 | They think all relationships hinge in the middle . |
| 4 | They carried me back to England in the middle of July . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 7 | Always in the middle , he wrote . |
| 8 | Memory of him standing there waving with two black holes in the middle of his face . |
| 9 | In the middle of working on a difficult piece I can almost feel my ears grow , he said . |
| 10 | Even now , he wrote , with the first heat of early summer in the middle of London , even now , with all the windows open , the glass freezes the room . |
| 11 | It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ She put the old kite right down in the middle of the fairway . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's dead — dropped right down in the middle of the cake-tasting . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In my mind , I had pictured Charles , Anne and myself standing in the middle of an otherwise empty common room , sherry glass in hand , desperately trying to think of something to say to each other . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Start to circle in a normal turn with about 20° of bank , keeping the yaw string exactly in the middle while you reduce speed very gradually . |
| 22 | Over coffee in the office , in the middle of a serious conversation , Lucy would edge her shoes off , stretch her feet and say : |
| 23 | Like there is now , holding each other in the middle of nowhere . |
| 24 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |
| 25 | You do not leave a new lover in the middle of the night . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , do n't make too much of a habit of switch-changing because the opponent may pick up your rhythm and attack just as you are in the middle of a change . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ In the middle of the hay harvest . |
| 30 | It stood in the middle of the room , apparently on its way somewhere . |