Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos at the weekend I did really well cos I got a couple done at youth club and a couple done at work I thought , yeah , I was doing really well but Monday I forgot to bring the spare batteries which was a bit divvy of me and I was gon na record it all during sewing Tuesday I went to placement |
| 2 | ‘ Right , tea and a couple of biscuits now , and supper later . ’ |
| 3 | How would you fancy having a heart attack with a priest and a couple of altar boys hopping round throwing cold water all over your head ? |
| 4 | We each left the bulk of our estates to the other , with a couple of minor legacies — my old college and a couple of godchildren on my side , and her sister on hers . ’ |
| 5 | bag , rather than keep buying it in , a couple of pound and a couple of pound there . |
| 6 | The library was empty except for an elderly man pottering in Biography and a couple of schoolchildren in the reference section ; there was opportunity for what Joyce called a natter , and no escaping it . |
| 7 | He was holding a key and a couple of toilet rolls ; he said something Rory did n't catch . |
| 8 | Well then they all come out , everybody , even Dave come out of the union and the only two that were left in it were Jane and Karen on our side and a couple from the warehouse and like there was Judith and I think Sonyou and a couple from the letter shop I , I , I do n't know , I do n't think Elaine went but I think the rest were , yes there were Pam and I think , I think Nigel were , but anyway when Judith comes up about what union money was left , I do n't know where it was left from or how it 's imposed , but they split the |
| 9 | Buy some planting mixtures , a stake and a couple of tree ties when you buy your tree . |
| 10 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 11 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 12 | Anyway , what I 'm askin' you to do now is to get on your feet and go and get me a drop of gin and a couple of pints of beer . ’ |
| 13 | Reynolds decided that a ring-file and a couple of paperbacks were all the disguise that he needed — it was early in the term and the place was full of strangers . |
| 14 | And the odds are the German on the sun lounger will have marked his spot early in the morning with a Game Boy and a couple of games cartridges . |
| 15 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 16 | A shocked demeanour and a couple of nettle stings to valiant rescuer Beverley were the only legacies . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 18 | She 's got a trolley basket and a couple of placky bags full of stuff and she 's made a sort of seat out of them so she 's real comfy like . |
| 19 | I 'm wanted on the phone , and then I have a long-standing business lunch and a couple of other appointments . |
| 20 | It recommended doing away with juries in complicated fraud cases and using a special tribunal of a judge and a couple of chaps who understand what 's going on in court . |
| 21 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 22 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 23 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 24 | We 're down the road on the left , Jacobean brick and a couple of montanas round the door . |
| 25 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 26 | So the choice is between the very high initial cost of a fast charger and a couple of batteries , or a cheaper slower charger and several batteries which will have to be replaced earlier . |
| 27 | To help us get our bearings there are three pages of typewritten text and a couple of maps which show that Kashgar is surrounded by China , Tibet , India , Pakistan , Afghanistan and Russia . |
| 28 | Apart from the odd positional change and a couple of new faces , that 's all we 've changed this season , ’ says Ward . |
| 29 | There was a nasty sprain which needed an X-ray , a query appendix for the surgical reg and a couple of cuts and other minor injuries which needed cleaning up and suturing . |
| 30 | The Frenchman had produced a bottle of champagne and a couple of bottles of burgundy 1924 ; with the help of a my little black book of French/English , I understood that he had buried the champagne and the wine in his garden just before the Germans entered the village shortly after the collapse in 1940 . |