Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 2 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 3 | The canal petered out in the middle of it . |
| 4 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 5 | It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them . |
| 6 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 7 | ‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ . |
| 8 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 9 | Claudia , who can be seen on the show tonight , says : ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night in absolute agony . |
| 10 | ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night . |
| 11 | We woke up in the middle of the night and , for a few minutes , we knew that love is everything . |
| 12 | I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay 's clothes out of the wardrobe . |
| 13 | He woke up in the middle of some night with this composed in his head . |
| 14 | Since they had started paying ‘ interest ’ , they no longer woke up in the middle of the night squealing with fright from nightmares . |
| 15 | ‘ … so the doctor gave him some pills , ’ Martin said , ‘ and when he woke up in the middle of the night there was a beautiful girl on his bed … diaphanous nightie , trailing blonde hair , the lot … ’ |
| 16 | I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated . |
| 17 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony . |
| 18 | Anyway he woke up in the middle of the night , sat up and spewed up all over Sandra ! |
| 19 | He came back in the middle of the morning and his eyes met Jenna 's at once . |
| 20 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 21 | However , the Canadian who stole the stuff turned up in the middle of the night with a revolver , took all the money my father had , and made him unload the entire cargo . |
| 22 | If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough ! |
| 23 | He just swivelled around in the middle , while she danced . |
| 24 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 25 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 26 | On arrival we were bemused to find only two medium sized marquees and three 180lb tents piled up in the middle of the strip of desert allotted to us … . |
| 27 | Another runner threw up his hands and walked out in the middle of one afternoon . |
| 28 | Marie hung about in the middle of the road , looking in . |
| 29 | ‘ When we got to Parma the car ( which worked on methane gas ] broke down in the middle of piazza Garibaldi , which had been completely cleared of civilians because the convoy was going to pass through it . |
| 30 | If the generator broke down in the middle of the night Penry had seen to it that she 'd still be able to lighten her darkness . |