Example sentences of "i [vb base] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | By future I mean a couple of seasons from now , the current season although not a write off by any means has lost a lot of meaning the league appears once again to be going to the scum and we 're out of the League cup thingy . |
| 2 | Cos then i I mean a couple of times I 've , like I would n't |
| 3 | I do n't know because I mean a couple of people have changed cos it 's the only time that they can have it . |
| 4 | I mean a couple of them do , I mean like Kipling housemaster and stuff . |
| 5 | And I 'm afraid you 're going to have to stay in the room for a short time , while I make a couple of phone calls and certain arrangements . ’ |
| 6 | Now wait here while I make a couple of calls . ’ |
| 7 | Some of the most effective poems and stories were rather bleak , but I attach a couple of poems that appealed to me . |
| 8 | And er and that that 's They had to take the top off to make it safe , that 's why I say a couple of hours work to put the top back on , erm makes balance . |
| 9 | ‘ Now then , I want a couple of you to go and find your father . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I put a couple of new vultures on it . |
| 11 | I put a couple of stitches in it while you were unconscious , ’ he said casually . |
| 12 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
| 13 | but we do if we look out when we see it coming down I save a couple of quid up each week that , then I 've got the money again |
| 14 | I add a couple of sleeping tablets to the other two pills and she swallows them quite happily . |
| 15 | I know a couple of places using stuff that should have been declared dead long ago . ’ |
| 16 | Now with the older West Indian people we would have you know , a passing sort of conversations and I know a couple of them came to help to get me to help them to fill in D H S S forms and things like that . |
| 17 | But sometimes I , I do feel that the girls , I , I know a couple of people in other departments that you could say would do the job equally well as the man they 've put in , they probably |
| 18 | I keep saying to him , look Colin , I said , I know a couple of times a week 's enough for me , but that 's worth waiting for , but when you 're doing it three times and then get sick of it . |
| 19 | I like a couple of their songs How about Depeche Mode , have you ever heard of them ? |
| 20 | People say that if I get a couple of days off I should go out driving and find some big old manor to stay in . |
| 21 | I remember a couple of years ago , Curtis Strange asking Arnold when he considered was the best he ever played . |
| 22 | I remember a couple of scenes when David would just go on and on asking me what I was doing with Michael , ’ she says . |
| 23 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 24 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 25 | I understand a couple got into a garden . |
| 26 | upsetting , he was stood on the was there , and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of . |
| 27 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |
| 28 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 29 | er I think a couple of things : first of all , the detail programme ; the government will have to produce for the forthcoming World Climate Conference in October/November , er the way in which they 're going to reach their target and secondly that will also discuss from amongst all the countries , what the target should be . |
| 30 | I 've a couple of things to sort out , then we can be off . ’ |