Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
2 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
3 | It was then that Brough discovered they were in the middle of a minefield . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Tallis thought it was about the middle of the day . |
6 | I told him he was lucky to be where he was when it happened , as when I first fainted it was in the middle of Watford High Street ! |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Maggie could n't help but think she was in the middle of a death trap . |
9 | Werewolf answered and said he was in the middle of cooking lunch as Sorrel was out . |