He stopped dead in the middle of the dance floor.
How could anyone stop in the middle of it and go home!
She stopped the car in the middle of the road.
"I still don't know how you made him stop in the middle of that attack on me."
The boy stopped and stood in the middle of the street.
But they both stopped short in the middle of the street.
No telling what might happen if we stopped the business in the middle.
The man had simply stopped dead in the middle of the street.
The old man had stopped in the middle of the path.
He did, and I stopped him in the middle of it.