Example sentences of "[verb] a couple [prep] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists . |
| 2 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 3 | Although it took a while and I crashed a couple of times , once I even knocked a dam down with a kite . |
| 4 | However , the fabric caught a couple of times . |
| 5 | She sniffled a couple of times and looked at him . |
| 6 | " I only sneezed a couple of times … but you know what mother is like , " Patrick said defensively . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe she tried a couple of times . |
| 8 | Someone who 'd been in the right place a couple of times . |
| 9 | He stooped a couple of times to shift a sheet of corrugated iron or warped plasterboard , but did n't find anything . |
| 10 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 11 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 12 | Paige had rather liked her cousin 's husband , though they had only met a couple of times . |
| 13 | Well you 'll have to have it done a couple of times |
| 14 | She 's written a couple of times , and now she 's arrived in person . |
| 15 | I meowed a couple of times and steeled myself as she came over . |
| 16 | Andy wiggles a couple of times as they get the feel of each other again . |
| 17 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 18 | He had phoned a couple of times but she had been out . |
| 19 | The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it . |
| 20 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 21 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 22 | great cricketer who only played a couple of times last season , was Dave . |
| 23 | We 've moved a couple of times , but still the same area . |
| 24 | Well if you sort of leave him out of a conversation , he goes a bit funny , he storms off , I think I had noticed a couple of times that he has , and you see what happens is he sits there |
| 25 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 26 | Dodson nodded a couple of times then shed from the byre . |
| 27 | Waters nodded a couple of times and set off . |
| 28 | It happened a couple of times , , the exercise . |
| 29 | THE city of New York has had its government reshaped a couple of times with- in the past century . |
| 30 | But Royle warned : ‘ We have had Cambridge watched a couple of times and they are an honest , hard-working side . |