Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 've got to stick around and do a couple of things . ’ |
| 2 | So we 'd go and work a couple of hours overtime or all night the scrap iron . |
| 3 | Blanche waited for him to sit down and take a couple of sips . |
| 4 | So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off . |
| 5 | Cos I I got the two science lectures and thought I 'll try and get a couple of arts lectures , |
| 6 | ‘ Look , I 'll go and get a couple of sandwiches and bring them back down . |
| 7 | I 'll go and get a couple of mats . |
| 8 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 9 | Charlotte come away lovey You keep her out here a minute I 'll just go and find a couple of books . |