Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I send in a couple of men ? ’ |
| 2 | But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough . |
| 3 | He did suggest that Sir Archibald send out a couple of scouts to as close as they could get to the enemy camp without being noticed , to send back word of any development there . |
| 4 | Seeking a quick fix for your anxiety , you knock back a couple of brandy and sodas : Dutch courage . |
| 5 | Mix up a couple of wash colours of varying intensity . |
| 6 | Not even when she had Andrew Jean and the others cut out a couple of the pioneers and pizza them across the two-lane blacktop . |
| 7 | So , although they start later , in fact ma mature sexually later , erm , than hinds do , just as human beings do , where of course males mature sexually a couple of years after females , their reproductive success can be vastly greater than any female . |
| 8 | Remember the communiqué they put out a couple of days ago ? |
| 9 | So if you give away a tenth on the start , you 've given nearly half a second per run , and most competitions are either two , three or four runs , cumulative time , so , you know , if you give away a couple of tenths every time at the end of the day you 're going to be a second down . |
| 10 | One by one , punters disappear into the doorway , pick up a couple of dime bags of coke , and move off . |
| 11 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 12 | All I 've got now is I have n't got ta go out for a main , if I 'm out just pick up a couple of bits for him when from Woking . |
| 13 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I want you to call a courier and sort out a couple of juicy documents to somebody not too far away , but it does n't matter who . |
| 15 | And er he would n't tell me what the message was you see , he would just say , Well go across to the other yard and shunt out a couple of coaches you see . |
| 16 | At other times in the past , temperatures appear to have fluctuated by as much as 10 degrees centigrade over a couple of decades . |
| 17 | All too easily the hands move out a couple of inches from their position and then attack the ball from the outside . |
| 18 | Hold your breath , now sit forward a couple of inches and now tense up all over the body , tighter , tighter . |
| 19 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 20 | Maybe she could trade some haulage klicks for the crystal and take along a couple of pods on the open market , legit , for the fine . |
| 21 | The office 's tubby female employee is the constant butt of lines like : ‘ Of course you 're not fat , Beryl … pull up a couple of chairs and sit down . ’ |
| 22 | Do n't do it in a provocative way — just quickly and calmly step back a couple of paces when you have finished , to increase the distance between you . |
| 23 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 24 | We treat just a couple , place some in the exercises and leave the rest for the reader to prove for himself or look up in , for example , [ 24 ] . |
| 25 | Phone back a couple of hours later to report that ooh-er , there seems to have been a copy of the Forms virus on the disk you were using , thus leaving said Editor 's hard disk neither healthy nor safe . |