Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 2 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 3 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 4 | ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here . |
| 5 | I 'll have finished in a couple of hours . |
| 6 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles . |
| 8 | The hospital carries out world-famous research into skin disease — but they used to have to work in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 9 | I 've pondered over a couple of the things . |
| 10 | Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 12 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 13 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 14 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 15 | ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job . |
| 16 | Sapan had brought along a couple of passengers too . |
| 17 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 18 | I mean , they the men are more stronger and that but I 've run around a couple of them and I 've lo |
| 19 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 20 | Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously . |
| 21 | That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego . |
| 22 | Half way along we had to stop for a couple of hours because the ‘ road ’ had been washed away and the people who were travelling had to clear it . |