Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 2 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 3 | At one point , laughing , they fired off a couple of rounds , ricocheting the bullets against a wall . |
| 4 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 5 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 6 | Erm but I mean they went away a couple of weeks ago down to where Dave 's brother was buried in Isle of Wight |