Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 2 | ‘ You can take me to a hotel , somewhere I can stay for a couple of nights until the police can find the very sick person who sent that letter to me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We wo n't know for a couple of days but everything points to her having used large amounts of cocaine , ’ a senior detective told TODAY . |
| 4 | And he seems to think I may not get any worse , but we sha n't know for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 5 | Also , voting for this season 's 1st team seems interesting , but should we wait for a couple of weeks before all signings are done . |
| 6 | ‘ In all my years of motor racing , I can only think of a couple of times when I mastered the machine as at the Nürburgring in 1968 . |
| 7 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 8 | ‘ I could think of a couple of ways , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ I can think of a couple of occasions when patronising you was the last thing on my mind . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe it is , but what does it mean wh what sort of thing might it refer to might think of a couple of fairly obvious ones . |
| 11 | What can we do with a couple of crumsters ? |
| 12 | I want you to pick up your phone and call me now cos I could do with a couple of phone calls so pick it up now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 13 | I could do with a couple of those . |
| 14 | The first seedlings will appear within a couple of weeks . |
| 15 | See what you can do in a couple of days . ’ |
| 16 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 17 | It will run for a couple of years , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Pedro How would you like to not see for a couple of days ? |
| 19 | Let's just run through a couple of the points . |
| 20 | A bottle will keep for a couple of hours once out of the fridge , but if you need to keep it for longer you should store it in an insulated cool-bag until it 's needed . |
| 21 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 22 | Even Princes William and Harry would look like a couple of little paupers in the presence of Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis . |
| 23 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 24 | So I tell you what I 'll do : I 'll look into a couple things maybe call somebody — can you get back here after lunch ? |
| 25 | We can look at a couple of points : |
| 26 | Well we 've got twenty five minutes at present shall we can you just wipe around a couple of other things and then we 'll come back to that if time remains ? |
| 27 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you can sleep for a couple of hours , while the tablets take effect , I 'm sure by this evening you 'll feel much more your old self . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We should meet in a couple of days ’ time . |
| 30 | He likes the flexibility of his endowment loan : ‘ I will probably move in a couple of years , and then who knows ? |