Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel like you 've heard them a couple of hundred times when it 's only been twice . |
| 2 | She 's given me a couple of great ideas . |
| 3 | Erm , we 've got a few sponsors , and also a few places that people have agreed to sell the book and display , so Nurseries , Redferns , Malcolm , College Bookshop , Toy and Candy , erm , a bloke from Manchester Insurance has given me a couple of days to sell the book out there . |
| 4 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 5 | The cab driver had dropped him a couple of streets from the rented apartment . |
| 6 | We 've won it a couple of times have n't we ? |
| 7 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 8 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 9 | I 've met 'er a couple o' times . ’ |
| 10 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 11 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
| 12 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've met him a couple of times . |
| 14 | Even though I have met him a couple of times . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know . |
| 16 | Well , we 've done it a couple of times before . |
| 17 | Oh I 've seen it a couple of times , yeah . |
| 18 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
| 19 | He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known her a couple of years . |
| 21 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
| 22 | Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability . |
| 23 | ‘ OK , ’ she conceded , ‘ maybe I have spotted him a couple of times . |
| 24 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | I 've wore it a couple of times for . |
| 26 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 27 | Once you 've read it a couple of times and confirmed in your own mind exactly how you want the system to operate , it 's surprisingly easy to get it up and running , and once you have , you 've got a quite capable mini-network to play with . |