Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone described seeing a couple having tea in a restaurant with an elderly parent . |
| 2 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 3 | The man with the baskets tried to kick a couple of scrawny hens out of his path and they fluttered towards the edge of the road . |
| 4 | Brian Clough has already made an inquiry for the player he tried to sign a couple of years ago from Arsenal and , if Leeds go out of the European Cup tonight , a rapid departure could be on the cards . |
| 5 | One evening after she 'd completed a couple of laps of the pool she was surprised to see David Markham stroll out of the changing-rooms on to the poolside . |
| 6 | Within three and a half seconds he 'd made a couple of marks on the paper and shoved it back . |
| 7 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 8 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 9 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 10 | I 'd noticed a couple of characters in different bars who also seemed more interested in the people than the liquor , and it did n't need any Sherlock Holmes to know who was paying for their drinks . |
| 11 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 12 | Then I seemed to grow a couple of inches , and thin out . |
| 13 | And we I tell you we 'd got a couple of hundred in ours . |
| 14 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 15 | Supposing , when Rozanov and I visited the porno bookshop , I said I 'd bought a couple of hardcore videos , hired a video recorder at the hotel , and spent two afternoons watching porn in my room . |
| 16 | We 'd had a couple just stay on the lip and we were getting desperate . |
| 17 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 19 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 20 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 21 | I 'd had a couple of drinks , lapped up some fast food , and jumped into a cab . |
| 22 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 23 | She 'd had a couple of little fumbling and innocuous affairs , nothing serious , and she never dared breathe a word to Georg . |
| 24 | and it was later on when she 'd had a couple of tomatoes . |
| 25 | After he 'd played a couple of tunes , the organ grinder took off his old frayed cap and handed it round the crowd that had gathered . |
| 26 | Sister Hope told me she 'd known a couple of pneumonias opened up by mistake . ’ |
| 27 | We 'd spent a couple of days practising the relay . |
| 28 | I 'd left a couple of rings on which were really hard to get off . |
| 29 | A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books . |
| 30 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |