Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 2 | It was then that Brough discovered they were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 3 | Mayne 's party spent the rest of the night dodging the enemy and , as dawn broke , they discovered that they were in the middle of a large military camp . |
| 4 | They were in the middle of a leisurely Saturday lunch , the sort of meal that stretches imperceptibly into afternoon tea . |
| 5 | Indeed , given the fact that they were in the middle of a war the balance of which they were afraid might tip disastrously against them , would they really have opted out other than by a deliberate political decision which would not be taken until well into the future ? |
| 6 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 7 | By good luck , they were in the middle of a long stint in London . |
| 8 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 9 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 10 | They were in the middle of a hideous ritual , and they were the sacrificial victims . |
| 11 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |
| 12 | They were in the middle of the dinner when we got there . |