Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea for the first excursion had flashed through his brain as he tramped across the middle of England from Market Harborough to Leicester on his way to attend a temperance meeting . |
| 2 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 3 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you get to the — ’ But he stopped in the middle of his question . |
| 5 | He stopped in the middle of the pavement and took her arm . |
| 6 | He was about 6ft 4in and I think he played in the middle at the back . |
| 7 | He came to the middle of her room and said very sadly , ‘ Dead ! |
| 8 | All these disconnected thoughts were roaming through his mind as he drove through the middle of the night close to his flat in South Ken . |
| 9 | He walked to the middle of the floor and stopped . |
| 10 | He steered through the middle of every cloud in his path . |
| 11 | People manage on short commons , he thought in the middle of his book . |
| 12 | He went to the middle of the field and spread out a small tablecloth . |
| 13 | He paused in the middle of folding up his easel . |
| 14 | Matilda 's father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle and of which he was exceedingly proud . |
| 15 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 16 | He stood in the middle of the living room and took off all his clothes , leaving them on the floor where they fell ; then he inspected his naked body , front , back and sides , in the full-length mirror that he had on his living room wall . |
| 17 | He stood in the middle of the deserted snow-packed road and raised his eyes towards the Feldwebel with the expression of a dying dog towards its master . |
| 18 | Holding it against his chest , he stood in the middle of the room . |
| 19 | He stood in the middle of the road , his arm outstretched in a signal for the Jeep to stop . |
| 20 | He stood in the middle of the room , surveying Jehan , and the guard who was beside the door eyed him nervously . |
| 21 | He stood in the middle of the yard . |
| 22 | He stood in the middle of the room and stared mistrustfully round him , wondering why he should be so favoured . |