Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in the middle " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She 's where I realized in the middle of the night she would be — where no doubt she always was — safely tucked up in Who 's Who and the Universities Year Book under ‘ Maitland , Mrs E J ’ . |
| 2 | It so fascinated me that I stopped in the middle of the subway . |
| 3 | I woke in the middle of the night and walked downstairs . |
| 4 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 5 | So with a little adding up and subtracting you will see that there were five children in the family and I came in the middle , being the third child . |
| 6 | All back together again yes , I 've got to go into hospital on erm well , tomorrow actually for erm another operation erm that 's to have a plate taken out of erm the collar bone which I broke in the middle of last season . |
| 7 | But … when I sat in the middle of the song , it worked . ’ |
| 8 | As I dangled in the middle of our first abseil there was a sound like a freight train out of a tunnel as a large section of mountainside decided to share our icefield . |
| 9 | I stood in the middle of the room growling and showing my teeth , then I made a puddle ! |
| 10 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 11 | Yes , I stood in the middle of the road , and gloried that there was no danger of being knocked down by traffic . |
| 12 | I awoke in the middle of the night with a pain in the back of my neck and a beating headache . |
| 13 | She stopped in the middle of a scream and the breath left her body with a groan . |
| 14 | Carrie was good at stories but sometimes she stopped in the middle and had to be prodded . |
| 15 | ‘ I am Signora Romagnoli , ’ Wilson said calmly , ‘ and I am your landlady who you called in the middle of the night to give you food and there it is . ’ |
| 16 | She paused in the middle of slamming the door , bending down to stare coldly at him . |
| 17 | Well do n't you see it going past , if you stood in the middle and watched it , there it goes ? |
| 18 | As she stood in the middle of the crowd , she felt a hand touching her bottom . |
| 19 | She stood in the middle of my hired front room . |
| 20 | She stood in the middle of the room with a vase of daffodils in her hand , not quite knowing what to do . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've told you before that you ca n't leave without seeing Doctor , ’ said the Sister , arms akimbo as she stood in the middle of the ward . |
| 22 | As the pasta drained , he gave the sauce a quick blast on the ring , and we ate in the middle of his room as enjoyably as in a trattoria . |
| 23 | ‘ I left on Monday morning from Amsterdam , where I met my brother and his girlfriend , and we continued to Miami , and from Miami to St Maarten , from St Maarten to Anguilla where we arrived in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | The koko served us tea as we sat in the middle of the boma after the cattle had gone . |
| 25 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 26 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 27 | She clung to him , and they stopped in the middle of the pavement , with the rain falling all round , its liquid percussion in drains , in gutters , on trees , on the umbrella , the only sounds . |
| 28 | They sagged in the middle and Endill was sure they would all squeak . |
| 29 | They telephoned in the middle of the dessert . |
| 30 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |