Example sentences of "i be [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I am in the middle of it |
| 2 | I am in the middle now , too old to have hair that remains an unadulterated chestnut , too young to feel entirely comfortable with going grey . |
| 3 | When I ask them to open their eyes , I am in the middle of the circle , at the bottom of the " hole " , wearing a pair of very dark goggles , clearly in role , but as what ? |
| 4 | She took one step forwards and shouted , ‘ Yes , I 'm in the middle of my ball period , if you want to know , ’ and the brandy slopped out of her glass and dropped into the part of the carpet that was orange and was never seen again . |
| 5 | I said : ‘ I 'm in the middle of one , for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm in the middle of a government grant on my house and by the time I get that together and spending money , which I should n't be doing , on junk , y'know , and I want to start a family and that , y'know , and try and be respectable , but it just does n't seem to be available under this health service , this National Health Service , although I do know people who have it prescribed . |
| 7 | Right I 'm in the middle of painting at the moment as well s I thought it 'll be slack cos everyone 's breaking up and everyone 'll be saying forget and everyone 's saying oh yes I do want a lesson . |
| 8 | I 'm in the middle of the kiss before it occurs to me I might be dreaming , but I know immediately I 'm not . |
| 9 | Once everybody else has gone off and done their bit , I 've either got a job I 'm in the middle of doing or I 'll plan some work for another time . |
| 10 | And right now I 'm in the middle of a set of illustrations for a new book . |
| 11 | I 'm in the middle of things right now , but we should be able to snatch a word in half an hour if that 's OK with you ? |
| 12 | I 'm in the middle of practice , as you surely know . |
| 13 | that sort of case is where I 'm in the middle there and you 're all sat around there . |
| 14 | ‘ As you can doubtless see , I 'm in the middle of decorating , or rather I was when you barged in and interrupted me . |
| 15 | ‘ I just came in to buy some flowers and a paper and suddenly I find I 'm in the middle of it all . |
| 16 | I 'm in the middle now . |
| 17 | I was in the middle of the wood , so I did n't know which way I was walking . |
| 18 | The class started , and I was in the middle of reading aloud a prose passage from Galdós when the door opened and in walked the fair-haired god I had glimpsed in the gallery . |
| 19 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 20 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 21 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 22 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 23 | I was in the middle of the aircraft next to the wireless operator , who read a book the whole way and ignored me completely . |
| 24 | And I was in the middle of all this , I was the engine of it all . |
| 25 | I do n't like shouting so I was in the middle . |
| 26 | When I was a teenager I was in the middle of a techno revolution , listening to Japanese avant-garde , techno and new rave bands . |
| 27 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 28 | I listened to others ' crises but did n't want to accept that I was in the middle of my own . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 30 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |