Example sentences of "[art] [noun] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the u a couple of them would come , a black and a white would be here and no bother at all . |
| 2 | She kissed me on the arse a couple of times , kissed me on the navel a couple of times . |
| 3 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 4 | The article should appear in the Times a couple of days after I get back to New York . |
| 5 | I 've had the experience a couple of times — just to use the tablets up . |
| 6 | In the June issue I incorrectly corrected credited Mr. Moffatt with the FA of Punks in the Gym , in fact a Mr Edlinger redpointed the route a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | Surely she 'd paid the rent a couple of weeks back ? |
| 8 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 9 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
| 10 | ‘ I heard a story from one of our Wrens that her husband was killed in an accident out there in the Falklands a couple of weeks ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It vanished from the boathouse a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 12 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 13 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 14 | The carrots a couple of pound there , they were expensive ! |
| 15 | It 's taken the club a couple of years to get its youth policy back on track , but all the signs now suggest that the current crop of teenagers is the most promising since John Robertson , Gary Mackay and David Bowman came through the ranks in the early Eighties . |
| 16 | A group of us were eating in a restaurant at a big hotel off the Strand a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | But also — ’ I flipped the keys a couple of times as I stood up — ‘ because I think he enjoyed doing it . ’ |
| 18 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 19 | He had gone out to the pub a couple of times with some old friends and was thinking of taking out a young woman he had met . |
| 20 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 21 | Standing below the route in the sun a couple of days later . |
| 22 | So I hung around in the sun a couple of hours and when I got to the station there 's a car in the car-park with the old guy in the back , and he has friends . ’ |
| 23 | He walked around the vehicle a couple of times , stretching his legs , stopping by the bonnet to squat down on his knees . |
| 24 | ‘ We collected 30 bags of rubbish in one day , and realised we had a serious problem , ’ he says ‘ From then on I decided to blitz the village a couple of days every week . |
| 25 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 26 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 27 | ’ There was one regular customer awe spoken girl who was enormously fat , quite well-to-do — who used to come in the shop a couple of times each week flaunting her jewellery and expensive hairdos . |
| 28 | Well every year erm we 're like at the moment a couple of light years away from it |
| 29 | I saw his brother in the Cock a couple of months ago . ’ |
| 30 | Not the Monday a couple of days ago but the one before . |