Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 2 | WHEN the great gale struck in October 1987 , the FitzPatricks were in the middle of building their Hedlunds home in the village of Upton Grey , near Basingstoke . |
| 3 | Irene Norton was in the middle of it , but Sherlock Holmes ran to help her . |
| 4 | Mr Malik was in the middle of a group crowded round Mafouz . |
| 5 | Rocky was on the right , Rodney was on the left , Speed and McAllister were in the middle , Deane was up front and we had Weatherall and Newsome in their nightmare scenario pairing as centre backs . |
| 6 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 7 | On the third day , unshaven and too tired even to eat , I was examining Jimbo while Alec was in the middle of his sick parade . |
| 8 | Behind him Charley was in the middle of the road , also beginning to move towards the van . |