Instead of haggling from makeshift stalls in the middle of pavements and roads, his plan would allow vendors to operate through leases, in safe and sanitary conditions.
In the middle of the pavement stood a well-known and all-knowing journalist.
Mobiles were a common sight, but Parisians and Madrileniens felt freer to talk in the street, even in the middle of the pavement.
A middle-aged man is sitting, head drooped, on a portable stool in the middle of the pavement, with a makeshift cardboard sign on a string around his neck.
"What I therefore plan to do is pitch my tent in the middle of the pavement outside Wimbledon, cover myself in mud, drinking dubious amounts of cider, wear tye-dye clothing, and not wash.
Perhaps you haven't noticed a little bronze loophole which Columbia left for herself; a tiny tablet set in the middle of the pavement on either side of the Plaza, "Inscription: "Property line of the trustees of Columbia University, crossing is by permission only, which permission is revocable at will".
The enormous parking lot only held a few cars this late in autumn (the park was so quiet that trotting along the middle of the pavement, wearing a look of requited curiosity, was a wolf), and if not for three yellow buses full of Idaho Falls schoolchildren, I would have had the geysers largely to myself.
There, in the middle of the pavement, members of the F.B.I.'s Evidence Recovery Team, many wearing lavender-colored latex gloves, used large screens set up atop sawhorses to sift through buckets of earth and mud scooped out of the hole.
On a cool and overcast afternoon, on a particularly nasty curve, a Ducati lay on its side smack in the middle of the pavement.
There was an electricity pole in the middle of the pavement so he was forced to take his wheelchair onto the road.
