Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 3 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ he murmured , and , lifting her easily into his arms , he carried her up the stairs and lowered her into the middle of the huge old bed . |
| 7 | Take the ball and put it in the middle of the flour . |
| 8 | Now , what you can do is try and cut it towards the middle of your line of aim . |
| 9 | This is known as cataphora , and it is a favourite opening device of authors who begin stories and novels with an unidentified he or she , both enticing us to look further , and plunging us into the middle of a situation as though we already knew what was going on . |
| 10 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 11 | She hands me the hat and moves me into the middle of the pavement . |
| 12 | And only Ackroyd would script a dialogue between several literary figures he has written books about and shove it into the middle of his latest offering . |
| 13 | SOMEONE broke into a garden shed in Wooteys Way , Alton on Monday night , removed a lawn-mower and left it in the middle of the lawn . |
| 14 | Ruth dropped the box and left it in the middle of the dining-room and stormed after him , her weak ankle totally forgotten in her fury . |
| 15 | A man had brought in the suitcases and stood them in the middle of the floor . |
| 16 | Although Stoy Hayward uses DOS versions of 1-2-3 , Mr Wise reports some interest in Windows : ‘ It 's mainly for ease of use , and for the increased ease of transferring a section of spreadsheet and pasting it into the middle of a document . ’ |
| 17 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |