Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [art] couple " in BNC.
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1 | Only cost him a couple of quid . ’ |
2 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |
3 | Give me a couple of minutes , will you ? |
4 | Give me a couple . ’ |
5 | But he this was a week and a half ago and he said , give me a couple of weeks , I want to have a look at the figures and the mix and have a think about it and I 'll come back to you . |
6 | Just give me a couple of minutes Cindy . |
7 | ‘ Give me a couple of minutes , then you can send the first one in . ’ |
8 | Give me a couple of minutes . ’ |
9 | Give me a couple of second . |
10 | Give me a couple . |
11 | Deep down Jack Butler was a simple man — give him a couple of Jaguars , a regular income pushing the half mill , a half-dozen talented sack-artists , preferably blond , and he 'd be happy . |
12 | ‘ Give him a couple of nudges with your leg to say ‘ listen to me ’ ! ’ she advised . |
13 | We got the dog and give him a couple of rope ends in his mouth and he take them across the ice . |
14 | having seen Frank playing in our Norwegian ‘ premiership ’ — i can only say : this guy has talent and give him a couple of more years on his neck he will become a real threat to any defence . |
15 | Cos I 've watch it , recor record it a couple of times , but I did n't realize they each had different days . |
16 | Also , give it a couple of years and the market will see just three big players on the market — Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , IBM and Unisys . |
17 | Give it a couple of days and you 'll feel you 've been here forever . ’ |
18 | has been up there nattering , it 's been noticed , so Norren come up to me today and she said oh er you do n't have to do upstairs she said , give it a couple of weeks she said and you wo n't have to do it any more |
19 | Just give it a couple of weeks and it 'll look just like his haircut ! |
20 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
21 | Give us a couple of days and you wo n't recognise it . ’ |
22 | Away and get me a couple of |
23 | Pass , pass me a couple , one , or something |
24 | get us a couple of tins as well . |
25 | Behind that was a billiard table , and near it a couple of bridge tables . |
26 | General item two straight after number five back to the budget which allow us a couple of petitioners who have been so far . |
27 | ‘ Fetch me a couple to start with , please . |
28 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
29 | Just ask her a couple of times whether she had a bath this morning and she will immediately be reduced to the anxious teenager she once was , surreptitiously sniffing her armpits and combing chemists for bottles of Charlie . |
30 | Ah if they 've got any just fetch us a couple . |