Example sentences of "stand [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person — the fox — stands in the middle , and the others — the geese — all go to one end of the room . |
| 2 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 3 | A blackened Anglican church , to cater for the enlarged Victorian population , stands in the middle of the view . |
| 4 | At the base of the rapid , a huge rock stands in the middle of the channel . |
| 5 | A round , gradual , shallow cone , the Hillock has , at first sight , no context : it stands in the middle of a field , growing scrabby grass , an egregious lone breast . |
| 6 | One Rainbow stands in the middle . |
| 7 | One player stands in the middle of the room and points ‘ North ’ with her arm . |
| 8 | Rail thing : Actor Thomas Clugson , playing the part of William Dargan ( the father of Irish Railways ) stands in the middle of the Lagan central bridge section of the new X-Harbour Rail Link . |
| 9 | Well there 's a cat , I do n't know who 's black and white cat it is it comes from the council houses and that stands in the middle of the road ! |
| 10 | I did n't think it was possible for somebody to stand in the middle of the fairway and say it 's an iron of any description . |
| 11 | I had to stand in the middle of this studio , the floor strewn with these bones and meat , and play guitar . |
| 12 | And then I 've seen t er me mother once had er oil lamp from the ceiling and it was round and the oil lamp used to stand in the middle . |
| 13 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 14 | She continued to stand in the middle of the kitchen , ablaze . |
| 15 | When seeking old routes ‘ by eye ’ rather than with the aid of a map , I have often found it useful to stand in the middle of an old bridge and look towards the nearest hills . |
| 16 | Right next thing you ask her to stand in the middle of the road and under a train and she would do ! |
| 17 | Stand in the middle of the border , tip the seeds on to the palm of your hand and throw them up in the air as high as you possibly can . |
| 18 | When you stand in the middle of the river a hundred and twenty feet wide , and look each side of you , it 's a rum 'un . |
| 19 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 20 | In fact I just stand in the middle of the bedroom looking like a favourite rich uncle on a flying visit from South America , urging her to choose where she 'd like to eat , and not worry about the cost . |
| 21 | ‘ If the candles fail , I 'll have you stand in the middle radiating a little glow and we 'll all dance around you . ’ |
| 22 | And then come round and stand in the middle please . |
| 23 | Julia did n't care a sod about that kid , she 'd let her to scream on , stand in the middle of the garden screaming , indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what 's so wrong , nobody knows how she er was as that child , only people like us who would hear |
| 24 | ( Yet surely a murderer would not stand in the middle of an enormous snow-covered , frost-bitten field in the dark on such a night , just on the off-chance that someone would be silly enough to cross it alone ! ) |
| 25 | If the burrow is a small one in flat territory , one man can effectively do all the shooting required and will stand in the middle , shooting round the full 360 degrees . |
| 26 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 27 | If you 'd all like to come and stand in the middle , yes |
| 28 | They navigated by the , by the ley lines , that 's why you find monuments built up on hills so they could stand in the middle of the of nowhere and they could see a , they could either feel it through their feet |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I looked round , the farmer was still standing in the middle of the road ; . |