Example sentences of "have [verb] a couple [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Bridges has asked a couple of pertinent scientific questions — but let's hear more from him before , perhaps , returning to the audience here in the studio for some more of their opinion . ’ |
| 2 | The form of the on-loan Arsenal forward John Bacon , who has scored a couple of crucial goals in recent weeks , and Stuart Gauld 's uncanny accuracy from penalties and free kicks , are potentially lethal weapons in the Derry armoury . |
| 3 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 4 | And we I tell you we 'd got a couple of hundred in ours . |
| 5 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 6 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 7 | In order to see them he would have had to climb a couple of hundred feet more . |
| 8 | er one thing or another , I must have spent a couple of thousand pounds on these photos . |
| 9 | This had given a couple of extra feet of clearance , but it had also left the steel ends of the support joists exposed . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've heard a couple of so-called radical journalists are sniffing around , pushed on by Christine Mills . |
| 11 | The ford had attracted a couple of hundred spectators , perhaps the largest-ever gathering in the village . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
| 15 | They 've got a couple of young kids , four and five , so she 's probably got her work cut out with them . |
| 16 | I 've got a couple of Siamese moggies , I know what they 're like . |
| 17 | I 've got a couple of other things to check . |
| 18 | And you 've got a couple of other younger riders coming through have n't you ? |
| 19 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |
| 20 | It 's not as if you 've got a couple of plain rows you can |
| 21 | If I 've got a couple of these blank , I can not finish on Friday night , I 'm going to have to do some overtime . |
| 22 | It 's you do n't have to sell a lot if er you 've got a couple of full pages and a couple halves . |
| 23 | which we 've got a couple of big ones but we have n't got like extra ones outside the garden dropping leaves . |
| 24 | No , no , they 're not complaining because they 're getting an easy time , er , I mean , I 've got a couple like that as well . |
| 25 | There were dialect pieces and local banter along with information on how a particular local player had performed a couple of hundred miles away . |
| 26 | I 've told a couple of trusted friends . |
| 27 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
| 28 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 29 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 30 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |