Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because he was in the middle of his mental stress he suffered a disaster . |
| 2 | He was in the middle of explaining to Franco the events of his day . |
| 3 | I could n't interrupt him , though , because he was in the middle of his performance as an artist . ’ |
| 4 | He was in the middle of smoothing one piece of earth when a shadow fell across his hands . |
| 5 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 6 | He was in the middle of a delicious dream where he had leaped right smack into a big , fat flock of gawking , squawking mallards when … |
| 7 | He was in the middle of getting undressed as his brother walked in with the paper . |
| 8 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 9 | By the sound of it , he was in the middle of shaving . |
| 10 | He was in the middle of the pivotal scene with Marianne , a scene which called on hero and heroine to embrace and kiss passionately . |
| 11 | He walked with a teeter , as though he was in the middle of falling on his nose , and brandished a glass lens on a stick as a warning to those in his way that his eyesight was not of the best . |
| 12 | Werewolf answered and said he was in the middle of cooking lunch as Sorrel was out . |
| 13 | Last time we ‘ phoned Richard he was in the middle of roasting a duck for birthday meal with Roger and Katie ( his ‘ lodger ’ ) . |
| 14 | But he was in the middle of a restaurant he said and I ca n't , think he felt a bit awkward speaking |