Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] a couple [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've heard a couple of so-called radical journalists are sniffing around , pushed on by Christine Mills . |
2 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
3 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
4 | He said : ‘ This is a similar challenge to Auxerre , but we 've got a couple of away goals this time . |
5 | They 've got a couple of young kids , four and five , so she 's probably got her work cut out with them . |
6 | I 've got a couple of Siamese moggies , I know what they 're like . |
7 | I 've got a couple of other things to check . |
8 | And you 've got a couple of other younger riders coming through have n't you ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It 's not as if you 've got a couple of plain rows you can |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | which we 've got a couple of big ones but we have n't got like extra ones outside the garden dropping leaves . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I 've told a couple of trusted friends . |
16 | Erm we 've had a couple of flat fires . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |